To Whom Have We Been Talking? Naeem Mohaiemen’s Fabulation of a People-to-Come

Noit Banai

doi:10.3998/gs.2437

To Whom Have We Been Talking? Naeem Mohaiemen’s Fabulation of a People-to-Come

Noit Banai^*

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Academy of Visual Arts

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This essay considers Naeem Mohaiemen’s three-channel video installation Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017) and performance-lecture The Shortest Speech (2019/2021) in order to expand the frameworks through which the Cold War might be understood from our contemporary perspective. It analyzes the technologies, techniques, and conventions of social assembly and public address embedded in and animating Mohaiemen’s works and makes visible the problematics of imagining a “people” during the Non-Aligned Movement’s historical context and in our neoliberal global capitalist present.

Original language	English
Article number	7
Pages (from-to)	115-129
Number of pages	15
Journal	Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images
Volume	2
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3998/gs.2437
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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