Mumtaz Hammad works across urban planning, sound design, and writing to explore spatial justice, cultural preservation, and community-centered mapping. They hold an M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University's GSAPP and an M.A. in South Asian Studies from UT Austin.
Their trans-disciplinary practice investigates how community spaces are located, interpellated, and experienced through processes of planning, performance, and sonic composition.
Their writings have been published in EFNIKS, Spy Kids Review, URBAN Magazine, Cordite Magazine, and Rest for Resistance.
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CREATIVE PRACTICE
A commissioned hybrid/live collaboration with Embaci celebrating the release of 8ulentina's album SURPASSING DISASTER. In this experimental performance, we engaged with music as an ancestral technology that bridges temporalities of past and future, ultimately dissolving temporal boundaries into negation.
Video synthesis, live performance.
2025
Audiovisual composition exploring oceanic and spiritual architecture through sound design and spatial theory. Drawing on Karen Barad's concept of intra-action, Édouard Glissant's oceanic philosophy, and Daoist concepts of emptiness, this piece examines "nothingness" as architectural material—arguing that the ocean's spatial negativity holds vastness and intra-actions that inform understanding of built and unbuilt environments.
Audiovisual design, poesis, theoretical research.
2024
Transnational audiovisual collaboration with French artist Sprælle, live-streamed internationally on Ola Radio (Marseille). Performance interrogated genre and border divisions through transcontinental sonic referencing.
DJ Performance, visual composition, international collaboration.
2024
Curated audiovisual installation featuring international artists Tati Au Miel and Embaci. Produced alongside B.P.M. Collective in abandoned water drainage area in Austin, TX, demonstrating community-led cultural production and spatial reclamation. Flier artwork by Eric Hernandez.
Curation, production, site-specific installation, performance.
2022
Group exhibition organized by queer and trans artists of color at the Fronte Art Cultura (San Diego). Featured visual poetry installation and original soundscape composition exploring postcolonial futurities and abolition of gender binaries and boundaries.
Installation art, sound composition.
2021
All-trans multimedia exhibition at SUPERFUN (Gainesville, FL). Assisted with gallery installation and conducted a live poetry reading, supporting community-centered trans cultural production. Flier artwork by program organizers.
Gallery coordination, gallery installation, live poetry.
2017
Online public lecture exploring material and cyborg feminism, part of BY US FOR US's open-source educational initiative. Contributed to accessible community education outside institutional frameworks.
Public programming, theoretical communication.
2019
Group exhibition centering queer dialogue at 4MOST Art Gallery (Gainesville). Contributed original visual works and soundscape composition, creating multisensory environment for community connection.
Visual art, poetry performance, sound composition.
2018
Independent publication centering queer utopian thinking and speculative worldbuilding. Contributed poetry engaging with queer futurity and liberation.
Poetry, publication.
2018