WORDS…
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WORDS BY ALANA HUNT
ARTIST BOOKS
Surveilling a Crime Scene, Borderline Books, printed on a risograph by SPLIT/SHIFT Press, 2023, reprinted offset 2024.
All the violence within: Conversations and Correspondence, Borderline Books (self-publishing imprint), edition of 112, 2022. Photocopied bootleg edition also available (2025).
Cups of nun chai , Yaarbal Books, New Delhi, 2020 (reprint 2021)
Paper txt msgs from Kashmir, e-book and print edition of 70, self-published 2011 (photocopied reprint 2012, 2023, 2024). Winner 2011 Fauvette Laureiro Artist Award. Photocopied bootleg edition also available (reprinted 2012, 2023, 2024, 2025)
OTHER BOOKS
The Politics of Artists in War Zones: Art in Conflict, edited by Kit Messham-Muir, Uros Cvoro, Monika Lukowska-Appel, Bloomsbury Publishing (2024)
Kashmir and the Future of South Asia, edited by Ayesha Jalal and Sugata Bose, Routledge (2021)
ESSAYS & CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Regional Assembly: Resisting Summary, Artlink, issue 44:2|Wirltuti/Spring (August-November), 2024, and reprinted in Regional Assembly 2023-24, Regional Arts Australia.
Violent Dreams of Development: A food bowl in the north-west of Australia? Artlink, December 2019
Potholes, Westerly, 63.1, 2018
No Easy Feat, Meanjin, Spring 2017
“Beautiful (in)Justice”, published by un Projects, May 2017
“I don’t want to be there when it happens” (review), Artlink (2017)
“Tjungunutja: From having come together” (review), Artlink (2017)
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)
“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
“Nura Rupert’s Mamu” in the exhibition catalogue Boo! Aboriginal Ghost Stories and Other Scary Matter, Tandanya, curator Troy-Anthony Bayliss, February 2016
“We turn heads when we hold hands in the street” in Overland (online), 16th April 2014
“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.
“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)
“Churchill Cann”, West Australian Indigenous Art Awards 2013: Catalogue, AGWA, 2013.
“A Garden Experiment”, Real Time, issue no.103, June/July 2011, p.4
Holiday Goddess Handbag Guide to Paris, London, New York and Rome, Ed. Jessica Adams published by Harper Collins, 2011
“It’s a human relations thing”, Locksmith Project, Issue I, June 2009
“Reunion Island, Offshore territory” and “Drifters”, Art and Deal Magazine – Radical: Possibilities / Ruptures, Issue No. 31, 2010
“In an age of terror the fundamental threat to Australia appears to be safety” and “Between the Festival”, Text Camp Reader, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2008
“Inside Outside Inside On, by Kenzie McKenzie and James Brown”, catalogue essay Drop Down: NSW artists in the 2008 Next Wave Festival
CONVERSATIONS/INTERVIEWS
Everyone talks about stolen cars and not about stolen country, by Régine Debatty in We Make Money Not Art, May 2024
Alana Hunt Excavates the Slivers of Colonisation by Dilpreet Bhullar in Stir World, January 2024
Activating the textures of Post-Digital Aesthetics (PDA) a conversation with Nancy Mauro-Flude, Tom Penney and Alana Hunt, un Projects, February 2019
A conversation about Kashmir: Alana Hunt with Sanjay Kak, Artlink issue 38:3, September 2018
A conversation between Amina McConvell and Alana Hunt, un Projects, November 2017
Treading Lightly: A conversation between Katie Breckon and Alana Hunt, published by un Projects, August 2017
The how, where and to what end: A conversation between Anabelle Lacroix and Alana Hunt, published by un Projects, June 2017
“Interview with Glenn Isseger-Pilkington” in un Magazine issue 10.1
REVIEWS
Looking at Asian-Pacific Art Through the Weather, Hyperallergic, May 2019
A review of Tracker by Alexis Wright, Westerly, November 2018
I don’t want to be there when it happens , Artlink, November 2017
Tjungunutja: From Having Come Together, Artlink, September 2017
SPOKEN / EVENTS
Surveilling a Crime Scene in conversation with Rahee Punyashloka and Priyanka Chhabra as part of Recompositions a series of public events co-presented with WestSpace, Liquid Architecture, Sarai / CSDS and curated by Suvani Suri and Laura McLean, 21 February 2025
Surveilling a Crime Scene in conversation with Tanvi Mishra at Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art, 22 January 2025
Surveilling a Crime Scene in conversation with Yashaswini Raghunandan at Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, 4 January 2025
Borrowed Landscapes, Mosman Art Gallery, 19 October 2024
Like Blood Thirsty Mosquitoes, online artist talk with Jack Green at Watch This Space, 18 May 2024
Antenna Documentary Film Festival, 2024
Surveilling a Crime Scene artist talk, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, October 2023
Rural Utopias Artist Talks, Art Gallery of Western Australia, November 2023
PhotoKTM5 artist talk 2023
Printing Matters: Circulation as Practice, Alana Hunt with Tanvi Mishra, Arif Ayaz Parrey and Sanjay Kak, Offset Projects, New Delhi 2023
Cups of nun chai: the art of publishing, Alana Hunt with Dayanita Singh, Lisa Rath and Kaushik Ramaswamy, Itu Chaudhuri Design, New Dehli 2023
Cups of nun chai, Alana Hunt in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta, School of Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University 2023
Cementa online studios artist talk 2023
Growing Like a Tree artist talk at Sunapranta: Goa Centre for the Arts 2022
Artist Talk with curator Pippa Milne, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2022
Kashmir, before us, Westspace, Melbourne, 2021
Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, 2021
Undisciplined: wisdom from womxn in the arts, six-part podcast, 2020
GROUND, Canvas: unframing art and ideas on FBI Radio, 2020
Parramatta Artist Studios Movers and Makers Program, “Knowing what you need financially”, 2020
Hatched Artist Talk, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 2020
Artist talk, Pathshala South Asian Centre for Media, Dhaka, 2020
Artist talk, Shoni-mongol Adda, Dhaka, 2020
Aesthetics Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, RMIT University, Melbourne, 2018
Rethinking the nation state, reactivating art—5 Objects with artist Alana Hunt, The Polis Project, 2019
Artist lectures at Brown, Tufts and Indiana universities, USA, 2018
Anywhere and Everywhere, Project Anywhere Conference, Parsons, New York, 2018
Makassar International Writers’ Festival, Rumata Art Space, Sulawesi (May 2018)
Frontyard Projects, Sydney, 2017/18
Melbourne Art Book Fair National Gallery of Australia, Melbourne, 2016
Open Engagement: Art/Life Queens Museum, New York, 2014
Memefest, “Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in Our Times” Swinburne University, Melbourne, 2014
Ngali-ngalim-Boorroo (for the women) as part of Curating Feminism, The Cross Arts Sydney, 2014
WORDS ABOUT ALANA HUNT
Everyone talks about stolen cars and not about stolen country by Régine Debatty in We Make Money Not Art, May 2024
Alana Hunt Excavates the Slivers of Colonisation by Dilpreet Bhullar in Stir World, January 2024
Alana Hunt: Surveilling a Crime Scene by Maurice O’Riordan in Artlink 29 November 2023
Witnessing a Generation by Jennifer Mills in The Saturday Paper June 10-16 No. 453, 2023 p.23
(Arts) Territory Exchange by Gudrun Filipska in SLUICE Spring/Summer 2022
Nun Chai Stories, Ratik Asokan, New Left Review, March 2022
Seven Myths You Should, by Tristen Harwood, Courthouse Gallery, 2022
The Dynamic Images and social landscapes of a restless city by Rahaab Allana, Aperture, Summer 2021, pp.18-24
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
All the violence within this, Robert Wood, Semaphore, July 2020
From Abdul Abdullah to Vincent Namatjira: 10 artists forging a new political future, Chloe Wolifson, The Guardian, 12 January 2020
Political Art and the Forensic Traces of Atrocity, Malay Firoz, un Projects, 2019
Alana Hunt: artist interview, Spilt Milk, 2018
Reader’s nun chai series on exhibition at Tufts University, Junaid Nabi Bazaz, Kashmir Reader, 13 November 2018
An interview with Alana Hunt, Centre for Stories, October 2018
Nun chai and Conversation: An Australian Artist’s Stories of Kashmir, Majid Maqbool in The Wire (27.10.16)
Fauvette Memorial Scholarship 2008-2016, eds. Jacqueline Millner et al., Sydney College of the Arts at The University of Sydney, 2016
Nature on the Move in 2016 Waterhouse Prize, In Daily (02.06.16)
The AU Interview: Alana Hunt Western Australia by Emily Booth in The AU Review (18.10.13)
Artraker award: artists in conflict zones fight back – in pictures in The Guardian UK, (21.09.13)
De-normalising the ‘normal’ in Kashmir by Nawaz Gul Qanungo in Kashmir Reader (24.09.12)
and Times of India: Crest Edition (22.09.12)
Tea and Text Messages, Beth Neate in ABC Open (07.03.12)
Art and Resistance, Rafia Zakaria in Dawn (27.07.12)
If there were smses to sell, what would you write?, Nawaz Gul Qanungo in Dawn (22.07.11) and Kashmir Reader (21.07.12)
Kashmir’s Paper Tigers, Neha Thirani in Times of India (02.07.11)
Letters from Kashmir, Baba Umar in Kashmir Dispatch (05.05.10)
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)
Bedroom becomes a drawing room, Janice Pariat in Time Out Delhi, vol.3 issue 10 August 2009
Hyperplexic Desalinated but not Scary, Dr. Ann Finegan in Artlink, vol.28 no.1, 2008, p. 47-51