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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SILLAGE PRESENTS: SURPASSING DISASTER - LIVE PERFORMANCE WITH EMBACI
Live Performance
2025
Role: Live Performer, Collaborator, Video Synthesizer, Sound Designer
Venue: Stone Circle Theater, Brooklyn
Commission: 8ulentina album release eventProject Description
A commissioned hybrid/live collaboration with Embaci exploring music as ancestral technology. This experimental performance interrogated temporal boundaries through sonic intervention, using liquid architectures of sound—employing both silence and noise—to create spatial compositions that compress constructed colonial worlds while reaching into our respective cultural histories.
Conceptual Framework
The performance engaged with sonic cartography as a methodology for subverting geography, dissolving bridges between past and future into negation. Through layered soundscapes, we examined how sound functions as both historical archive and futurist intervention, challenging linear temporalities imposed by colonial frameworks.
Production Elements
- Live performance collaboration with Embaci
- Video synthesis and visual composition
- Soundscape design integrating ancestral and contemporary sonic technologies
- Lighting design by Wildblur
- Contextual framing within 8ulentina's SURPASSING DISASTER album themes
Collaborators: Embaci (performer), Wildblur (lighting design), 8ulentina and Nana (musical context and curation)
Documentation: Watch performance
Flier artwork: Program organizers
Skills: Live performance • Sonic design • Video synthesis • Collaborative practice • Conceptual framework development