Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen
Born 1969 (age 46–47)
Nationality Bangladeshi
Occupation Historian

Naeem Mohaiemen (born 1969) is a historian who uses essays, photography, and film, to research Bangladesh after two postcolonial markers (1947 and 1971).[1][2] He is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow (film).[3]

Writing

Naeem is author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash.[4] He edited the anthologies Between Ashes and Hope: Chittagong Hill Tracts in the blind spot of Bangladesh nationalism,[5] Collectives in atomised time,[6] and System Error: War is a force that gives us meaning.[7]

He was the primary critic of Dead Reckoning, a book by Sarmila Bose on the 1971 war of Bangladesh. His response was cited by the BBC[8] and published in Economic & Political Weekly ("Waiting for a real reckoning on 1971").[9] Sarmila Bose responded to his remarks in the same periodical, followed by a rebuttal from Mohaiemen.[10]

Essays on Bangladesh history include"Muktijuddho: Polyphony of the Ocean",[11] "Accelerated Media and the 1971 Genocide",[12] "Musee Guimet as Proxy Fight",[13] "Mujtaba Ali: Amphibian Man" (The Rest of Now, Rana Dasgupta ed.),[14] "Mujib Coat" (Bidoun journal),[15] and "Everybody wants to be Singapore" (Carlos Motta’s The Good Life).[16] He wrote the chapter on religious and ethnic minorities in the Ain o Salish Kendro Annual Report for Bangladesh.[17]

Essays on diaspora include "Known unknowns of the class war" (Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop),[18]"The skin I'm in: Afro-Bengali solidarity and possible futures" (Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop),[19] "Beirut, Silver Porsche Illusion" (Men of the Global South, Zed Books),[20] "Why Mahmud Can’t Be a Pilot" (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the rules of Gender and Conformity, Seal Press),[21] and "No Exit" (Asian Superhero Comics, New Press).[22]

Essays on culture include "Islamic Roots of HipHop" (Sound Unbound, MIT Press; Runner Up for Villem Flusser Theory Award),[23]"Adman blues become artist liberation" (Indian Highway, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist)[24] and "At the coed dance " (Art Lies: Death of the Curator).[25]

Film

Naeem’s films include "Abu Ammar is Coming", Rankin Street, 1953, Der Weisse Engel, and SMS Iran: After Gilles Peress.

Since 2006, he has worked on a series of films under the project The Young Man Was, a history of the 1970s left. Part 1 of the series was United Red Army,[26] about the 1977 hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 472 by the Japanese Red Army. United Red Army premiered at Sharjah Biennial, Hot Docs,[27] and IDFA.[28] It has shown at various museums, including The New Museum in New York[29] and is in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern museum in London.[30][31] Part 2, Afsan's Long Day premiered at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2014 as part of "Doc Fortnight".[32] It had a festival premiere at Oberhausen[33] and a British premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.[34] Part 3, Last Man in Dhaka Central premiered at the 56th Venice Biennial 2015, as part of "All The World's Futures" curated by Okwui Enwezor.[35]

Photography

Naeem co-founded Visible Collective,[36] a collective of New York-based artists and lawyers investigating security panic. Visible's work exhibited internationally, including the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art ("Wrong Gallery" room)[37] and L’institut des cultures d’Islam in Paris.[38] His solo projects have looked at military coups ("My Mobile Weighs A Ton" at Dhaka Gallery Chitrak),[39] surveillance ("Otondro Prohori, Guarding Who?", Chobi Mela V at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy),[40] Indian partition ("Kazi in Nomansland" at Dubai Third Line),[41] architectural nationalism ("Penn Station Kills Me" at Exit Art),[42] and dueling leftist and Islamist politics ("Live True Life or Die Trying" at Cue Art Foundation, New York).[43] Chapters from his ongoing research on the 1970s ultra left have shown at the Pavilion (Bucharest),[44] New Museum (New York),[45] Frieze Art Fair (London),[46] and MUAC Mexico City.[47]

Museum projects have been supported by Creative Time,[48] Creative Capital,[49] Samdani Art Foundation,[50] Sharjah Art Foundation,[51] Rhizome,[52] Franklin Furnace,[53] and Puffin Foundation.

Press

The work has been featured in Granta,[54] Modern Painters ("Art & War"),[55][56]Art Review,[57] Rethinking Marxism, Springerin, Arab Studies Journal, and Brooklyn Rail.

Education

Naeem graduated from Oberlin College in 1993 with a BA in Economics and Concentration in History. He was a member of the college's Board of Trustees for the 1994-1996 term. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Anthropology, with a Certificate in Comparative Literature,[58] at Columbia University.

References

  1. ↑ Bengal Forum
  2. ↑ ISEA 2010 Ruhr Exhibitions
  3. ↑ 2014 Guggenheim Fellows- Creative Arts-Film-Video
  4. ↑ Prisoners of Shothik Itihash on Amazon
  5. ↑ Samya Kullab, "Championing Pahari Rights", Star Weekend Magazine, 17 September 2010. Thedailystar.net (17 September 2010). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  6. ↑ Collectives in Atomised Time, with Doug Ashford, Idensitat Press. Idensitat.net. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  7. ↑ System Error, with Lorenzo Fusi, Silvana Press
  8. ↑ Alastair Lawson, "Controversial book accuses Bengalis of 1971 war crimes", BBC, 16 June 2011
  9. ↑ Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 46 No. 36, 3 September 2011
  10. ↑ Sarmila Bose, "Dead Reckoning: A Response". Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 46 No. 53, 31 December 2011
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 43 No. 04, 26 January 2008
  13. ↑ Playing by the Rules: Alternative Thinking/ Alternative Spaces (9781933347431): Robert Atkins, Julie Ault, Rene Block, Winslow Burleson, Biljana Ciric, Renaud Ego, Sofija Grandakovska, Boris Groys, Marina Grzinic, Pablo Helguera, Naeem Mohaiemen, Raphael Rubinstein, Irene Tsatsos, Steven Rand, Heather Kouris: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  14. ↑ Silvana Editoriale. Silvanaeditoriale.it. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  15. ↑ Bidoun #14
  16. ↑ Carlos Motta: The Good Life: Art in General New Commissions Program Book Series Vol. XVIII (9781934890189): Eva Diaz, Anne J Barlow, Stamatina Gregory: Books. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  17. ↑ http://www.askbd.org/hr_report2008/15_Religious.pdf
  18. ↑ [aaww.org/known-unknowns Asian American Writers Workshop]. Retrieved on 18 March 2015.
  19. ↑ Margins/ Asian American Writers Workshop. Retrieved on 6 March 2013.
  20. ↑ Men of the Global South: A Reader (Global Masculinities) (9781842775134): Adam Jones: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  21. ↑ Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity (9781580051842): Matt Bernstein Sycamore: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  22. ↑ Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology (9781595583987): Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow, Jerry Ma: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  23. ↑ Sound Unbound – Table of Contents – The MIT Press. Mitpress.mit.edu (31 May 2008). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  24. ↑ Indian Highway Catalogue SOLD OUT Serpentine Gallery. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  25. ↑ A Contemporary Art Quarterly
  26. ↑ Guy Mannes-Abbott, Sharjah Art Foundation, 18.03.2011. Sharjahart.org (18 March 2011). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  27. ↑ Hot Docs. Retrieved on 9 December 2012.
  28. ↑ IDFA Website. Retrieved on 9 December 2012.
  29. ↑ New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved on 9 December 2012.
  30. ↑ In conversation with Bernadette Buckley. Retrieved on 9 December 2012.
  31. ↑ Out of the Archive, London Consortium at Tate Modern. Retrieved on 9 December 2012.
  32. ↑ MOMA: Doc Fortnight. Retrieved on 18 March 2015.
  33. ↑ Oberhausen In Competition
  34. ↑ BFI London Film festival: Material Evidence
  35. ↑ Venice Biennial Artist List
  36. ↑ Press. Disappeared In America. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  37. ↑ "Down by Law", curated by Wrong Gallery. Whitney.org. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  38. ↑ Collectif Visible – Institut des Cultures d'Islam. Institut-cultures-Islam.org. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  39. ↑ Nader Rahman, "Blurred pictures and sharp words", Star Weekend Magazine, 29 August 2008. Thedailystar.net (29 August 2008). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  40. ↑ Jamil Mahmud, "Naeem Mohaiemen takes a look at fear mongering", The Daily Star, 20 February 2009. Thedailystar.net (20 February 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  41. ↑ Beena Sarwar, "Artists Take On Post-Colonial Partitions", IPS, 6 February 2009. Ipsnews.net (6 February 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  42. ↑ History | 2007. Exit Art. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  43. ↑ Brian Boucher, Art in America, 1/15/2010. Artinamericamagazine.com. Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  44. ↑ "What was socialism, and what comes next?", Pavilion, #10–11. (PDF) . Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  45. ↑ ArtCat Zine – Events – Naeem Mohaiemen at New Museum. Zine.artcat.com (27 January 2009). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  46. ↑ "Retour à Frieze", Le Monde, 26 October 2010. Lunettesrouges.blog.lemonde.fr (26 October 2010). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  47. ↑ (Spanish) Concepción Moren, "arte, ficciones, política y violencia", El Economista, 20 June 2011. Eleconomista.com.mx (30 June 2011). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  48. ↑ Global Residency
  49. ↑ Creative Capital
  50. ↑ Samdani Art Foundation
  51. ↑ Sharjah Biennial
  52. ↑ Rhizome at New Museum
  53. ↑ Franklin Furnace
  54. ↑ High Noon (IV) | Online Only|Granta Magazine. Granta.com (30 September 2010). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  55. ↑ Modern Painters: Complicating the History of the Left
  56. ↑ » Modern Painters: Art & War. Art-for-a-change.com (22 April 2008). Retrieved on 12 November 2011.
  57. ↑ Art Review Future Greats 2012
  58. ↑ Columbia University: Our Graduate Students
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