about the work

Visible Collective/Mohaiemen
Above Ground, 2006
Visible Collective/Mohaiemen was a temporary coalition of artists & activists, organized by Naeem Mohaiemen, working from 2004 to 2007 on projects about national security panic. For the LES Tenement Museum, Donna Golden taught public art techniques to English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students. Guest lectures were given by Aimara Lin, Avideh Moussavian and Uzma Rizvi . Students then used loaned cameras to document their immediate surroundings in the outer boroughs of New York. Random snapshots were bleached and damaged by Mohaiemen and collaged with milestones from U.S. immigration history.

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