WRITTEN
by Alana
BOOKS
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FORTHCOMING All the violence within: Conversations and Correspondence, Borderline Books (self-publishing imprint), edition of 112, 2022
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Cups of nun chai , Yaarbal Books, New Delhi, 2020 (reprint 2021)
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Paper txt msgs from Kashmir, e-book and print edition of 70, self-published 2011 (winner Fauvette Laureiro Artist Award)
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ESSAYS & CREATIVE NON-FICTION
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Violent Dreams of Development: A food bowl in the north-west of Australia? Artlink, December 2019
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Potholes, Westerly, 63.1, 2018
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“A mere drop in the sea of what is”, 4A Papers, edited by Pedro de Almeida, November 2016 (Highly Commended by AICA’s 2018 Incentive Award for Young Art Critics under 40)
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No Easy Feat, Meanjin, Spring 2017
- “Beautiful (in)Justice”, published by un Projects, May 2017
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“You got a story? On language and image in Gija art” co-authors Anna Crane, Frances Kofod and Alana Hunt in Artlink: Indigenous_Northern issue 36:2 June 2016
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“Nura Rupert’s Mamu” in the exhibition catalogue Boo! Aboriginal Ghost Stories and Other Scary Matter, Tandanya, curator Troy-Anthony Bayliss, February 2016
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“We turn heads when we hold hands in the street” in Overland (online), 16th April 2014
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“Ngali-Ngalim Boorroo (For the Women)” in Curating Feminism, Sydney College of the Arts , 2014. Full text compiled and co-authored by Alana Hunt and Anna Crane, with words by Nancy Nodea, Mabel Juli, Betty Carrington, Phyllis Thomas and Shirley Purdie from interviews recorded by Nancy Daylight, Margaret Joshua and Asayah Nodea in September 2014 in the Media Lab at Warmun Art Centre.
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“Faith and Knowledge” in Jadagen Warnkan Barnden: Changing Climate in Gija Country, Warmun Art Centre, 2013. (access the pdf online from The Cross Art Projects)
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“Churchill Cann”, West Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2013: Catalogue, AGWA, 2013.
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“A Garden Experiment”, Real Time, issue no.103, June/July 2011, p.4
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Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide to Paris, London, New York and Rome, Ed. Jessica Adams published by Harper Collins, 2011
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“It’s a human relations thing”, Locksmith Project, Issue I, June 2009
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“Reunion Island, Offshore territory” and “Drifters”, Art and Deal Magazine – Radical: Possibilities / Ruptures, Issue No. 31, 2010
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“In an age of terror the fundamental threat to Australia appears to be safety” and “Between the
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Festival”, Text Camp Reader, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2008
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“Inside Outside Inside On, by Kenzie McKenzie and James Brown”, catalogue essay Drop Down: NSW artists in the 2008 Next Wave Festival
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CONVERSATIONS/INTERVIEWS
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Please find all media related to Cups of nun chai compiled here.
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Activating the textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics (PDA) a conversation with Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tom Penney and Alana Hunt, un Projects, February 2019
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A conversation about Kashmir: Alana Hunt with Sanjay Kak, Artlink issue 38:3, September 2018
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A conversation between Amina McConvell and Alana Hunt, un Projects, November 2017
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Treading Lightly: A conversation between Katie Breckon and Alana Hunt, published by un Projects, August 2017
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The how, where and to what end: A conversation between Anabelle Lacroix and Alana Hunt, published by un Projects, June 2017
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“Interview with Glenn Isseger-Pilkington” in un Magazine issue 10.1
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REVIEWS
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Please find all media related to Cups of nun chai compiled here.
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Looking at Asian-Pacific Art Through the Weather, Hyperallergic (May 2019)
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A review of Tracker by Alexis Wright, Westerly, November 2018
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I don’t want to be there when it happens , Artlink, November 2017
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Tjungunutja: From Having Come Together, Artlink, September 2017
about Alana
Please find all media related to Cups of nun chai compiled here,
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Nun Chai Stories, Ratik Asokan, New Left Review, March 2022
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Beyond Museology: The National 2021, Tess Maunder, Art Monthly Australasia, 27 August, 2021
- Sharing is Caring, Tess Maunder, Fine Print Magazine, Issue 27: Hospitality, 2021
- The National 2021, by Tristen Harwood, The Saturday Paper No.343 April 2021
- It’s a love letter to those women who haven’t been seen, by Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 March 2021
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All the violence within this, Robert Wood, Semaphore, July 2020
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From Abdul Abdullah to Vincent Namatjira: 10 artists forging a new political future, Chloe Wolifson, The Guardian, 12 January 2020
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Political Art and the Forensic Traces of Atrocity, Malay Firoz, un Projects, 2019
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Alana Hunt: artist interview, Spilt Milk, 2018
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Reader’s nun chai series on exhibition at Tufts University, Junaid Nabi Bazaz, Kashmir Reader, 13 November 2018
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An interview with Alana Hunt, Centre for Stories, October 2018
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Nun chai and Conversation: An Australian Artist’s Stories of Kashmir, Majid Maqbool in The Wire (27.10.16)
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Fauvette Memorial Scholarship 2008-2016, eds. Jacqueline Millner et al., Sydney College of the Arts at The University of Sydney, 2016
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Nature on the Move in 2016 Waterhouse Prize, In Daily (02.06.16)
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The AU Interview: Alana Hunt Western Australia by Emily Booth in The AU Review (18.10.13)
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Artraker award: artists in conflict zones fight back – in pictures in The Guardian UK, (21.09.13)
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De-normalising the ‘normal’ in Kashmir by Nawaz Gul Qanungo in Kashmir Reader (24.09.12)
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and Times of India: Crest Edition (22.09.12)
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Tea and Text Messages, Beth Neate in ABC Open (07.03.12)
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Art and Resistance, Rafia Zakaria in Dawn (27.07.12)
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If there were smses to sell, what would you write?, Nawaz Gul Qanungo in Dawn (22.07.11) and Kashmir Reader (21.07.12)
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Kashmir’s Paper Tigers, Neha Thirani in Times of India (02.07.11)
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Letters from Kashmir, Baba Umar in Kashmir Dispatch (05.05.10)
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Ban on prepaid meets sarcasm in Kashmir: Aussie student’s ‘paper text message’ provides vent to dejected subscribers, Baba Umar in Rising Kashmir (21.12.09)
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Bedroom becomes a drawing room, Janice Pariat in Time Out Delhi, vol.3 issue 10 August 2009
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Hyperplexic Desalinated but not Scary, Dr. Ann Finegan in Artlink, vol.28 no.1, 2008, p. 47-51
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SPOKEN
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Artist Talk, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2022
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Kashmir, before us, Westspace, Melbourne, 2021
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principles (?) vulnerability, p.u.b.l.i.c.s.c.h.o.o.l., 2021
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Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, 2021
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Undisciplined: wisdom from womxn in the arts, six-part podcast, 2020
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GROUND, Canvas: unframing art and ideas on FBI Radio, 2020
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Parramatta Artist Studios Movers and Makers Program, “Knowing what you need financially”, 2020
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Hatched Artist Talk, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 2020
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Artist talk, Pathshala South Asian Centre for Media, Dhaka, 2020
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Artist talk, Shoni-mongol Adda, Dhaka, 2020
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Aesthetics Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2018
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Rethinking the nation state, reactivating art—5 Objects with artist Alana Hunt, The Polis Project, 2019
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Artist lectures at Brown, Tufts and Indiana universities, USA, 2018
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Anywhere and Everywhere, Project Anywhere Conference, Parsons, New York, 2018
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Makassar International Writers’ Festival, Rumata Art Space, Sulawesi (May 2018)
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Frontyard Projects, Sydney, 2017/18
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Melbourne Art Book Fair National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne, 2016
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Open Engagement: Art/Life Queens Museum, New York, 2014
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Memefest, “Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in Our Times” Swinburne University, Melbourne, 2014
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Ngali-ngalim-Boorroo (for the women) as part of Curating Feminism, The Cross Arts Sydney, 2014