Naeem Mohaiemen

Naeem Mohaiemen
Born	1969 (age 47–48)
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Occupation	Visual Artist, Filmmaker, Historian

Naeem Mohaiemen uses essays, film, and mixed-media installations to research South Asia's two postcolonial markers (1947, 1971).His projects on the 1970s revolutionary left explores the role of misrecognition within global solidarity. He is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University and a Guggenheim Fellow (film). Currently his work is on view at Documenta 14, and has been exhibited at the Sharjah, Marrakech, Momentum (Nordic), and Eva (Ireland) Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art New York, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, and Tate Britain.

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

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 and published in Economic & Political Weekly ("Waiting for a real reckoning on 1971").Sarmila Bose responded to his remarks in the same periodical, followed by a rebuttal from Mohaiemen.

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

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

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

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