Born and raised in Kashmir’s Srinagar, Uzma Falak is pursuing her doctoral studies in anthropology at the University of Heidelberg and she teaches at the University of Tübingen. Her research explores Kashmir women’s soundmaking practices as sites of alternate spatialities, temporalities and modalities. Her poetry, articles, essays, and reportage have appeared in several publications, including English Language Notes, Disclaimer, Economic and Political Weekly, Guernica Magazine, The Baffler, Adi Magazine, Al Jazeera English, Warscapes, The Caravan, The Electronic Intifada, Palestinian Chronicle, Vittles among others. She has contributed to Gossamer: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry (Ink Publication, 2015), Of Occupation and Resistance: Writings from Kashmir (Tranquebar Press, 2013), and Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? (Women Unlimited, 2020). In 2017, she won an honorable mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Award. She was also part of the Warwick Tate Exchange, The Production of Truth, Justice and History, held at the Tate Modern, London. Her film, Till Then The Roads Carry Her explores Kashmir women’s lifeworlds and repertories of resistance and has been screened at several venues such as Art Gallery of Guelph (Guelph), Tate Modern (London), Cine Diaspora (New York), University of Copenhagen, University Of Warsaw, School of Art and Aesthetics (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Karlstorkino Cinema (Heidelberg) among others. Between 2021-2022, she has been a part of the Regional Arts Australia’s artist-led online studio program and is currently a part of Capture All: A Sonic Investigation – a collaboration of Australia Council for the Arts, Liquid Architecture, and Sarai, focused on exploring sound/ listening as resources of power, capture, and extraction.
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