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In Conversation with Umber Majeed and Ambika Trasi

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Umber Majeed is a multidisciplinary visual artist. She received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016 and graduated from Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan in 2013. Her writing, performance, and animation engages with familial archives to explore specifics of Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America, and Europe. She participated in Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program 2016-17 in Beirut, and is the recipient of fellowships including Refiguring Feminist Futures – Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude & ZKM, Germany (2018),  The Digital Earth, Hivos, the Netherlands (2018-19), and Pioneer Works, Technology Residency (2020). Majeed lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan.

Ambika Trasi is an artist, arts organizer, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her multidisciplinary research-based practice reveals the coloniality of power within images and sites. She is interested in the role that memory, language, and technology play in identity-making, community-building, and decolonizing (through unlearning/learning) in the diaspora. Trasi is currently a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of the American Art, where she is co- curating the forthcoming exhibition, Salman Toor: How Will I Know (postponed due to COVID-19, new dates to-be-announced). Previously, she was managing director and curatorial assistant at Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), 2013-2017. As a board member of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), Trasi was an exhibition manager for shows held at Queens Museum (2016) and Abrons Art Center (2017).