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Fri, Jan 30, 2009
7:00 PM

New Museum theater (directions)

Naeem Mohaiemen: Young Man Was No Longer A...

Part of New Silent
 
Discussions

Naeem Mohaiemen will present excerpts from a project in progress that investigates failed 1970s revolutionary movements. This event will be a lecture where Mohaiemen presents his research tied to our present moment through personal anecdote and historical commentary. Mohaiemen is a writer and artist based in Dhaka and New York City, whose work has been shown internationally at the UK House of Lords (Human Rights Commission side-session), Berlin Transmediale, Finnish Museum of Photography, Dhaka Gallery Chitrak, Dubai Third Line and Singapore Flying Circus. He also works on activist projects around religious and ethnic minorities in Bangladesh, particularly army-occupied Chittagong Hill Tracts. Portions of Young Man Was No Longer A... is a Rhizome 2009 Commission.

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Organized by Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome, the New Silent Series receives major support from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.