On Video: Raqs Media Collective, CAMP, Desire Machine Collective
Sunday 21 June, 2015
4 - 5:30pm, $0
Queens Museum, New York City Building
Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, Queens
During a walk-through of the current exhibition “After Midnight: Indian Modernism To Contemporary India 1947/1997,” curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala, Naeem Mohaiemen will discuss the video works of Raqs Media Collective, CAMP, and Desire Machine Collective. Naeem Mohaiemen uses essays, photography, and film to explore borders, wars, and belonging within Bangladesh’s two postcolonial markers (1947/1971). From 2002-06, he was a member of Visible Collective, whose project Disappeared in America originated from the “Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now“exhibition in Queens Museum in 2004-05. He has written essays for Raqs Media Collective edited issues of Sarai Reader, and is working with CAMP on a 1971 interview archive for Pad.Ma.