[spectre] New podcast: Naeem Mohaiemen talks about pragmatic politics and failed masculinities

[Radio Web MACBA]

*In this podcast, Naeem Mohaiemen
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula>*talks about
pragmatic politics and failed masculinities, about Yasser Arafat, Muammar
Gaddafi, and Salvador Allende, about the backstories of "Two Meetings and a
Funeral", and about the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation. We also talk about the generative aspect of
melancholy, behind-the-scenes politics, and the importance of keeping up
the search for the things that we still do not know.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula

With a modus operandi based on wandering and endless searching, Naeem
Mohaiemen (b. London, 1969) r
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/naeem-mohaiemen/capsula>epeatedly delves
into Bangladesh’s history through a detailed examination of its documentary
heritage. His films meticulously analyse the way in which historical events
are filtered and stored in national audiovisual archives, and reveal that
the borders of those archives contain significant geopolitical narratives
in a latent state. Mohaiemen describes his research as “following the work
down, down, deep into the rabbit hole,” without knowing where it will lead,
picking up lost narrative threads that we wouldn’t have imagined we’d find
there, which point in an unexpected direction.


In this podcast, Naeem Mohaiemen talks about pragmatic politics and failed
masculinities, about Yasser Arafat, Muammar Gaddafi, and Salvador Allende,
about the backstories of "Two Meetings and a Funeral", and about the
Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. We also
talk about the generative aspect of melancholy, behind-the-scenes politics,
and the importance of keeping up the search for the things that we still do
not know.

*Timeline*
*00:00* A great missing object
*03:06* “Two meetings and a funeral”: the Wayback story
*08:07* Archival obsessions and moments of accidental discovery
*12:55* Real politics happens behind the scenes
*17:58* Generational projections
*31:44* Melancholia as a generative mood
*39:58* Pragmatics politics: compromises, endorsments, audiences
*46:47* Gulf Labour
*52:03* Failing / Flailing masculinities
*58:53* Building stories together

*E/N/J/O/Y*
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