Visible Collective + Naeem Mohaiemen

Disappeared In America Visible Collective + Naeem Mohaiemen. Artist working in Dhaka and New York. [disappearedinamerica.org] + [shobak.org] When An Interpreter Could Not Be Found Visible Collective/Naeem Mohaiemen Part of a series of 41 window projections, 2005-2006.

The proposal is to document the project Disappeared In America , a
series of art space interventions by Visible Collective/Naeem
Mohaiemen that was shown in US from 2004-2007. Through films,
installations and lectures, the project looked at hyphenated
identities, concepts of "loyalty" and post-9/11 security panic. The
majority of people detained in the US and Europe during recent
paranoia times are from the invisible underclass - shadow citizens who
drive taxis, deliver food, clean tables, and sell fruit, coffee,
roses, and newspapers. The only time we "see" them is when we glance
at the license in the taxi partition, or the vendor ID card. When
detained, they cease to exist in the consciousness. This impulse to
create an insider-outsider dynamic with "loyalty" overtones has a long
pedigree: WWI incarceration of German-Americans; 1919 detention of
immigrants in Anarchist bomb scare; WWII internment of
Japanese-Americans; execution of the Rosenbergs; HUAC "red scare";
infiltration of Deacons For Defense and Black Panthers; and the rise
of the Minutemen militia.
The proposal for Idensitat07 is to re-present some of the key portions
of this project.