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Bengal Connected, Dhaka Tribune, Naeem Mohaiemen (Text) and Sarker Protick (Images), August 19, 2022
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Third Text: Critical Perspectives On Contemporary Art and Culture, Volume 36, 2022, Issue 1, Number 174, January 2022
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L’Internationale, “Marx Pather Bhumika 1”, 2021
Class & Redistribution, Chapter 5 “Marx Pather Bhumika 1”, Naeem Mohaiemen.
Class and Redistribution is the third in a series of e-publications edited by L'Internationale Online looking at concepts of political economy. Following the previous publications Austerity and Utopia and Degrowth and Progress, the present issue complicates two contested economic terms: class and redistribution. By inviting contributions from sociologists, political philosophers and artists, we seek to understand how these terms are utilised in institutional contexts and artistic practices. Our approach challenges orthodox definitions of economic categories. Since the universal, ahistorical use of these categories is debatable, we accept, following historian Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘the[ir] dual nature’, and interrogate their ‘intellectual and social histories’. It is urgent, for example, to question the Western cultural logic that governs financial practices and instruments such as insurance and property rights, and to expose the coloniality of an equation that synonymises productivity and profit, or custody and patrimony.
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“NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati: Nepal Picture Library,” Naeem Mohaiemen, 2020
The Jane Lombard Fellows were finalists for the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. What follows are the essays written by their nominators for the prize jury in the summer of 2020.
“Always wanting to break with Geography: remembering Kanishka Raja,” Frieze, London, 2018.
“Hegemony: Same Old Stories,” Naeem Mohaiemen, Frieze, edited by Amy Sherlock, London, 2018
“When Shall We Meet Again,” by Syed Mujtaba Ali, Dhaka Tribune, translated by Naeem Mohaiemen, 2018
“The Loneliness of the Long Distance Campaign,” Assuming Boycott, Carin Kuoni, Laura Raicovich, Kareem Estefan (ed.); Walker Art Center (with images by Hans Haacke), Paul Schmelzer (ed.). 2017
“Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon,” Mohaiemen, Naeem. “Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon” Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art, e-flux Jounal 56th Venice Biennale, edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Verso, London, 2017
“What we mean when we ask permission,” What Now? The Politics of Listening, Anne Barlow (ed.), Black Dog Publishing, London. 2016
"Simulation at Wars’ End: A "Documentary" in the Field of Evidence Quest,” BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies (1). 2016
“Flying Blind: Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971,” Economic & Political Weekly, 2011
“Mohaiemen The Ginger Merchant of History Standing in the Shadows of Giants," wdw review — sediments, by Naeem Mohaiemen, 2016
“The Rest of Now,” Edited by Rana Dasgupta and Raos Media Collective, ” Amphibian Man,” Naeem Mohaiemen, 2016
“Time of the Writing, Hour of the Reading,” Economic & Political Weekly, Naeem Mohaiemen, 2016
“Beirut: Silver Porsche Illusion,” Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015, Jennifer Liese (ed.), Paper Monument, Brooklyn, NY, October. 2016
“Muhammad Ali, We Still Love You: Unsteady Dreams of a “Muslim International,” New Inquiry, June. 2016
“Muktijuddho: Polyphony of the Ocean,” The Daily Star, April 9. 2016
“All That is Certain Vanishes Into Air: Anabasis of the Japanese Red Army," e-flux Journal, #63. 2015
"Stranded on the Borders of two Bengals," New York Times, India Ink. 11/15/2012.
"When an interpreter could not be found," The Sun Never Sets: South Asians in an Age of U.S. Global Power, Vivek Bald, Sujani Reddy, Manu Vimalassery, Miabi Chatterjee ed. New York: New York University, 2012.
"I can’t find Dhaka," Staedelschule series Ed 1, Nikolaus Hirsch & Markus Miessen ed., Sternberg, 2012.
"Flying Blind: Waiting for a real reckoning on 1971," Economic & Political Weekly, India, Vol 46 # 36. 2011
"Asterix and the Big Fight: Musee Guimet as Proxy Fight," Playing by Rules, Apex Art, 2010.
“Otondro Prohori: Guarding Who? Against What?” Sarai Reader, No. 08: Fear, Delhi: CSDS. 2010.
"Everybody wants to be Singapore," La Buena Vida/ The Good Life, Carlos Motta ed., Art in General, 2009.
“Vacuum Packed Sweets [Roshogolla],” Daily Star Book of Bangladeshi Writing, translated by Naeem Mohaiemen (2005)
"Fear of a Muslim Planet: Islamic Roots of Hip Hop," Sound Unbound, DJ Spooky ed., MIT Press, 2008.
"Adman blues as artist liberation," Indian Highway, curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine, UK, 2008.
What Do You Have On The Menu That’s Totally Tasteless? By Syed Mujtaba Ali,
Translated by Naeem Mohaiemen, 2007
“The League of Extraordinary Subtitles: Bad Translations Offer Meta Fun,” Naeem Mohaiemen, Bright Lights Film Journal, January 2004.