reading
Nun Chai Stories
by Ratik Asokan
New Left Review, 02 March, 2022
An Interview with Alana Hunt
by Sharanya Deepak
Believer Magazine, 01 December, 2021
Against forgetting. Against erasure.
by Shivangi Mariam Raj
Himal Southasian, 11 November, 2021
Book Excerpt: Life or Siege?
by Uzma Falak
Guernica Magazine, 10 August, 2021
Book Review: Alana Hunt, ‘Cups of nun chai’
by Dilpreet Bhullar
Third Text, 05 August, 2021
Photo Essay: Brewing Solidarity
by Tanvi Mishra
The Caravan, 01 July, 2021
Cups of Nun Chai Sheds Light on the Kashmir Often Missing From Headlines
by Majid Maqbool
Hyperallergic, 15 April, 2021
Fast Forward - Women in Photography - Photobooks of the Year
Recommended by Rahaab Allana / Alkazi Foundation for the Arts
Alana Hunt’s ‘Cups of Nun Chai’ is a Personal Memoir of Lives Lost in Kashmir
by Majid Maqbool
Observer, 5 January 2021
Book Launch with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Artist and writer Alana Hunt and filmmaker and founder of Yaarbal Books, Sanjay Kak, in conversation with curator Jasmin Stephens.
Political Art and the Forensic Traces of Atrocity
by Malay Firoz
un Projects, 2019
Cheering Cups of Tea: Overcoming Hitch About Kashmir in World Literature
by Muhammad Nadeem
Mountain Ink Magazine, 12 August, 2021
Alana Hunt’s 'Cups of nun chai' hosts a decade-long conversation with Kashmir
by Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi
Stir World, 17 June 2021
Cups of Nun Chai: An archive of memories
by Majid Maqbool
The Mint, 3 January 2021
“I plan to continue listening to Kashmir”: Alana Hunt on her journey over cups of nun-chai
by Zenaira Bakhsh
The Kashmir Walla, 27 February 2021
Why ‘Cups of Nun Chai’, by Alana Hunt, needs to be read in urgency to understand the narrative of jingoism
by Shah Alam Khan
Indian Express, 28 February 2021
Books that Shaped Our Year (2020), Inverse Journal
by Majid Maqbool
Inverse Journal, 31 December 2020
Offset Projects: GUFTGU Talk Series 2020 - Alana Hunt
Webinar page for Cups of nun chai at Offset Projects
30 October 2020
Kashmir and the Future of South Asia
Edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal
Routledge, 2021
The AU Interview: Alana Hunt Western Australia
by Emily Booth
The AU Review, October 2013
Communion with the dead: In conversation with Alana Hunt
by Editor
Wande Magazine, 10 March 2021
Cups, Chronicles, and Conflict: In conversation with Alana Hunt
by Rounak Bhat
Free Press Kashmir, 27 February 2021
‘Cups of Nun Chai’: Tea and conversation as part of a memorial for those killed in Kashmir in 2010
Excerpt published by Scroll.in
15 December 2020
2020 in Reading: Ten books on Kashmir
Wande Magazine, 2 January 2021
Nun chai and conversation: An Australian artist’s stories of Kashmir
by Majid Maqbool
The Wire, 27th October 2016
A conversation about Kashmir
Alana Hunt and Sanjay Kak
Artlink, 2018
Human Rights in Postcolonial India
Edited by Om Prakash Dwivedi, V. G. Julie Rajan
Routledge, 2016
Project Anywhere: Art at the Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity
Edited by S. Douglas and S. Lowry
for Project Anywhere – viii Anywhere
Centre of Visual Art (University of Melbourne) and School of Art, Media and Technology (Parsons The New School for Design). Design by Ella Egidy, 2019.
listening
Rethinking the Nation State, Reactivating Art—5 Objects with artist Alana Hunt
a podcast with The Polis Project, 2019
Listen: Audio for Book Launch with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Artist and writer Alana Hunt and filmmaker and founder of Yaarbal Books, Sanjay Kak, in conversation with curator Jasmin Stephens.
Podcast: Collective Narration & the Narratives of Control
Cups of nun chai for 4A Digital
Listen to contributing writers Alana Hunt, Arif Ayaz Parrey, Parvaiz Bukhari and Uzma Falak read from excerpts of their writing which photographer Sharafat Ali has responded to visually.
watching
Watch: Video for Book Launch with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Artist and writer Alana Hunt and filmmaker and founder of Yaarbal Books, Sanjay Kak, in conversation with curator Jasmin Stephens.
Watch: Guftgu Artist Talk with Anshika Varma of Offset Projects
The Sounds Of Justice Are Music To My Mouth
Photos: Conversations about Kashmir over cups of nun chai
Photogallery in the Hindustan Times
2 January 2021
engaging
- Focal Point Book Fair, Sharjah Art Foundation, 9-11 December 2021
- Kashmir, Before Us, Alana Hunt, Moonis Shah, David Sequeria, and Sanjay Kak, hosted by Andy Butler at West Space, 2 December 2021
- THE SOUNDS OF JUSTICE ARE MUSIC TO MY MOUTH, Alana Hunt, Stephen Loo, Keg de Souza, and Elia Nurvista hosted by Liquid Architecture, Food Art Research Network, and CAST at RMIT, 10 November 2021 (recording)
- Chai, Coffee and Conversation, Stuart Freedman and Alana Hunt in conversation with Varun Nayar, Museum of Art and Photography Bangalore, 28 August 2021
- Paper Trail: Chennai Photo Biennale Learning Lab, pop up photobook library and reading room, Serendipity Arts Foundation, various cities in India, August 2021
- Her Worlds, a curated collection of photobooks by women, TEXT // MATTERS, Serendipity Arts Foundation, New Delhi, April 2021
- Book launch with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, December 2020
- Guftgu talk series with Offset Projects, New Delhi, 2020
- Quantum City: International Public Art Festival, Karachi, 2019
- Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, 2019
- National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, 2018
- In (library) residency, reading and discussion, Frontyard Projects, Sydney, 2017-18
- Reading and discussion, Centre for Stories, Perth, 2018
- 13 hour durational reading with Accomplice at Darwin Fringe Festival, 2018
- Makassar International Writers Festival, 2018
- Instagram take over with The Polis Project, 2018
- Art in Conflict research project with The Australian War Memorial, 2018
- AAANZ Aesthetics Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art at RMIT, Melbourne, 2018
- Anywhere and Elsewhere conference, Project Anywhere, Parsons: New School, New York, 2018
- Guest lectures at Brown, Tufts and Indiana universities, USA, 2018
- Nominated for the Infinity Awards, International Centre for Photography, New York, 2018
- Incinerator Award for Art and Social Change, Incinerator Gallery, 2017 (WINNER)
- The 62nd Blake Prize, 2013 (HIGHLY COMMENDED)
- Mori Gallery, Sydney, 2012