Contemporary artists Naeem Mohaiemen and Pallavi Paul discuss collectivity among cultural workers, as alternatives to an art market that often generates competition and rivalry.

Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, installations, and essays to investigate the erasing of political utopias. The Idea of an international left, instead of silos of race and religion, underpins the work. His essays include  “Hegemony: Same Old Stories” (Frieze, 2017), “Simulation at Wars’ End,” (Bioscope, 2016), “The Ginger Merchant of History” (Witte de With, 2016), and “Flying Blind: Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971” (EPW, 2011). He recently exhibited at Bengal Shilpalay (Dhaka), Experimenter (Kolkatya), Kiran Nadar Museum (Noida), SALT Beyoglu (Istanbul), Mahmoud Darwish Museum (Ramallah), Tate Britain (London), MoMA PS1 (New York), and documenta 14 (Athens/Kassel).  In India, he has given talks at Sarai CSDS, Jadavpur University, Seagull Kolkata, and Vidyashilp Academy.

Pallavi Paul lives and works in New Delhi, where she is currently enrolled as a Ph.D candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her practice includes video, installation, text, photography, research and performance. Her hybrid multi-fora practice is about working with questions of truth and the rehearsals of evidence they find themselves engaged within. Her work has been shown at the AV festival in Newcastle, Savvy Contemporary, Contour Biennale, Tate Modern, The Garage Rotterdam, Cinema Zuid, Close-Up Cinema, Beirut Art Centre, Open Source Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Bhaudaji Lad Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, KHOJ International Artists’ Association amongst others.