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Afterall Journal Launch Issue 47: Naeem Mohaiemen and Charles Stankievech in Conversation

29 apr 2019
Book launch, Public talk
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Book launch , Public talk Last update: 10 may 2023

To launch Afterall journal issue 47, ‘Situated Practices and Conditioned Positions’, we are pleased to host an in conversation event with artist Naeem Mohaiemen and contributing editor Charles Stankievech in collaboration with the Master of Visual Studies Proseminar, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in Toronto

Naeem Mohaiemen,Tripoli Cancelled, 2017, video, 1h 35min. Courtesy the artist and Experimenter, Kolkata

Devised by the editorial team in Singapore and Istanbul in the last year, this issue of Afterall journal looks at practices that encounter fragments and facets of histories otherwise not seen or told, complicating the understanding of ever-changing alliances of powers and world orders. Mohaiemen and Stankievech will discuss the role of archiving unfinished histories, listening to subjective testimonies, and presenting aesthetics of evidence in order to question hegemonic narratives that have historically been one-sided and exclusionary.

Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, installations and essays to research former utopias and incomplete decolonizations, framed by Third World Internationalism and World Socialism. He co-edited (with Lorenzo Fusi) System Error: War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2006) and is currently co-editing (with Eszter Szakacs) Solidarity Must be Defended (2019). His work has recently been shown at SALT (Istanbul, 2019), MoMA PS1 (NYC, 2018), documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel, 2017), and he was a finalist for the 2018 Turner Prize.

Charles Stankievech is an artist, the Director of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto, and a contributing editor of Afterall Journal.

Afterall Journal Launch Issue 47
Monday 29 April, 18:30–20:30

Main Hall of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture,
Landscape and Design,
University of Toronto,
1 Spadina Crescent,
Toronto,
ON M5S 2J5,
Canada

This launch is hosted by the Master of Visual Studies Proseminar, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design in Toronto. It is free to attend and all are welcome.