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

the New Museum

Fri Jan, 30 2009, 7PM

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. Image courtesy of the artist