Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen (b. 1969, London) combines film, installation, and essay to research leftist insurgencies and incomplete de-colonizations framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. Despite underscoring a leftist tendency to misrecognize allies, a hope for a future international left, as the only possible alternative to current polarities of race and religion, is a basis for his work. He is author of Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (Kunsthalle Basel, 2014), editor of Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Spot of Bangladesh Nationalism (Drishtipat, 2010), co-editor (w/ Lorenzo Fusi) of System Error: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (Sylvana, 2007) and co-editor (w/ Eszter Szakacs) of Solidarity Must be Defended (Tranzit/ Van Abbe/ Salt/ Tricontinental, 2019). His essays include “Hegemony: Same Old Stories” (Frieze), “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Campaign” (Assuming Boycott), “Simulation at Wars End: A ‘Documentary’ in the Field of Evidence Quest” (Bioscope), “All That is Certain Vanishes Into Air: Anabasis of the Japanese Red Army” (e-flux journal), “Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You: Unsteady Dreams of a ‘Muslim International’” (New Inquiry), “The Ginger Merchant of History: Standing in the Shadow of Giants” (Witte de With), and “Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic roots of Hip-Hop” (Sound Unbound, MIT Press). His work has been recently exhibited at SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul (2019), Mahmoud Darwish Museum, Ramllah (2018), Vasas Federation of Metalworkers’ Union, Budapest (2018), Abdur Razzaq Foundation, Dhaka (2017), and documenta 14, Athens/Kassel (2017). He is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Columbia University.