EventsThe New Social Environment#650

Umber Majeed: Made in Trans-Pakistan

Featuring Majeed and Andrew Woolbright

Monday, September 19, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

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Artist Umber Majeed joins Rail contributor Andrew Woolbright. We conclude with a poetry reading by Pony P.

In this Talk

Visit Umber Majeed: Made in Trans-Pakistan, on view at Pioneer Works through December 11, 2022 →

Umber Majeed

A photo of Umber Majeed on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Multidisciplinary visual artist and educator Umber Majeed (b. New York, 1989) received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2016. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. Majeed has shown in venues across Pakistan, North America. Her most recent group exhibition was the Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn (2020) and her most recent solo exhibition was ‘Trans-Pakistan Zindabad (Facts about the Earth)’, at 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (2021).

Andrew Woolbright

A photo of Andrew Woolbright on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Artist, curator, and critic Andrew Woolbright is based in Brooklyn, New York, and is an MFA graduate from RISD in painting. Woolbright is the founder and director of the gallery Below Grand located on the Lower East Side in New York. In addition to curating, he is an Editor-at-Large at the Brooklyn Rail. In 2021, Woolbright curated the show Density Betrays Us with Angela Dufresne and Cash Ragona at the Hole; and curated shows at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and Hesse Flatow in the summer of 2022. He currently teaches at School of Visual Arts and Pratt Institute and is a 2021–2022 resident at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in Dumbo.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

A photo of Dao Strom on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

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