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Alexander Keefe

Alexander Keefe is a writer and critic, whose works have appeared in magazines like Cabinet, Bidoun, East of Borneo and Artforum. In 2014, he completedSarkari Shorts, a year-long online excavation of documentary films produced by the government of India during the Cold War. Keefe did graduate work in Sanskrit and Indian Studies at Harvard University. He currently holds the Inaugural Alan Erasmus Fellowship in Unpopular Culture atNew York University and is working on research related to the career of Indian dancer Shanta Rao.

As of August 2020

Videos

  • A Slightly Curving Place

    What does it mean to listen to the past?
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  • Alexander Keefe: The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955

    Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
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  • Alexander Keefe: The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955

    Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
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  • Alexander Keefe: The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955 (German)

    Lecture, Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
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  • Discussion with Clare Davies, Nataša Ilić, Alexander Keefe & Museum of American Art

    Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
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  • Discussion with Clare Davies, Nataša Ilić, Alexander Keefe & Museum of American Art (German)

    Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
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  • Discussion with Alexander Keefe

    Following the lecture "The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955" Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition Original version
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  • Discussion with Alexander Keefe (German)

    Following the lecture "The Living Arts of Ancient TV: Indian Culture and US Television, 1955" Dec 16, 2017 Conference Freedom in the Bush of Ghosts, part of the Parapolitics exhibition German translation
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