The Artist Chantal Meza and the Political Philosopher Brad Evans discuss their SoD Project. They talk about the Artworks, their understanding of Art, the Politics and Abstraction. This Project is part of the Histories of Violence. You can find more information in the links below. Histories of Violence https://www.historiesofviolence.com/ State of Disappearance https://www.chantal-meza.com/stateofdisappearance Chantal Meza https://www.chantal-meza.com/ Brad Evans https://www.brad-evans.co.uk/

Invited by Adrian Parr, Dean of the College of Design at the University of Oregon, Chantal Meza presented the paper 'Unseen Crowds - Deleted Spaces' at the Urban Violence Forum, at Portland and later on participated on a Panel along side Brian House and Julieta Gil Gomez. This Panel was Moderated by Justin Fowler, Director of Portland Architecture Program.

Invited by Samuel Weber, Avalon Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University, Brad Evans & Chantal Meza delivered a Joint Lecture at its Paris Program in Critical Theory in Paris, France.

Realities: Different Visions of the Real https://trebuchet-magazine.myshopify.com/collections/realities Featuring: Tavares Strachan: Institutions, Language And Realities Nazir Tanbouli: Dream Symbols Sofia Crespo: What Shadows Find Us Mark Tansey: Reality Bleeds: When Is A Painting Not A Painting? Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg: Horny, Hybrid Animals: Avatars Of Pleasure, Signifiers Of Something Mitch Griffiths: Click Mythologies Tai Shani: Dreams Of Resistance, Shadows Of Action Brad Evans: Conflicting Interests Tony Cragg: Feeling Through The Mind Of Material Damien Hirst: Fantasies of Eternity Jake & Dinos Chapman Price includes P&P - Ships Nov 2022 Cover: Mitch Griffiths, The Verified One, 2018. Photo: Tom Carter Photography Ltd., Courtesy of Mitch Griffiths/Halcyon Gallery © Mitch Griffiths 2022 www.trebuchet-magazine.com

An insight to the creative process of the artwork for the show "Books with BraNd" a co-hosted show by Russell Brand & Brad Evans transmitted through Rumble. About this project go to https://www.chantal-meza.com/bookswithbrand For more episodes 'Books with BraNd' https://rumble.com/search/video?q=russell%20brand

Introduction video to episode 1 of Books with BraNd. Featuring Russell Brand & Brad Evans. Artwork by Chantal Meza.

"Unseen Crowds - Deleted Spaces". Lecture delivered at Urban Violence Forum at University of Oregon, Portland, April 2022.

How are we to bear witness to those who leave no trace? What role can politics, philosophy and art play when dealing with violence so extreme it takes us beyond all intelligible limits? And how might we recover something of the human in the face of its total annihilation? This collaborative talk will speak directly to the disappeared of history. Drawing upon our critical and artistic interventions from the State of Disappearance project, we will seek to explore the role witnessing, including the transgressive witnessing of art and how this allows for a rethinking of the political. In doing so, the talk will also provide further reflections on the ways disappearance demands considered ethical consideration on the role of perpetrators, victims, and witnesses, along with accounting for the multiple ways bodies can vanish from the surfaces of human belonging. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Brad Evans is Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, UK. Chantal Meza is an abstract artist whose work focuses on multiple political issues, including human disappearance. Moderated by Susanna Siegel, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. Recorded on 4/11/22

W&F 1/2022: Täter*innen Jede Bebilderung der Suche nach Täter*innen, nach dem, was sie motiviert, antreibt, zu dem Akt führt, über den sie definiert werden, ist schwer. Chantal Mezas Bilder versuchen einen Blick in den Strudel der Gewalt, den Schmerz, die Ohnmacht, das betäubende Loch der Leere, das von der Gewalttat hinterlassen oder zugefügt wird. Abstrakt und doch oft verstörend konkret führt uns der Blick immer tiefer in unser eigenes Seelenleben. David Scheuing (W&F) interviewt Chantal Meza für diesen Blick hinter die "Kunst im Heft". ---------- Zum Projekt "State of Disappearance": ------------- Zur Künstlerin: Chantal Meza ist Autodidaktin in Abstrakter Malerei, und lebt und arbeitet in Großbritannien. Ihre Werke sind schon in mehr als 30 Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen in bedeutenden Museen und Galerien in Lateinamerika und Großbritannien zu sehen gewesen. Ihre Werke werden regelmäßig für print und digitale Publikationen angefragt. Web: --------- Wissenschaft & Frieden ist die führende interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftszeitschrift für Friedensforschung, Friedenspolitik und Friedensbewegung. W&F erscheint seit 1983 und publiziert zu friedenspolitischen, militär-strategischen und rüstungstechnischen Fragen, untersucht Gewaltursachen und -verhältnisse und thematisiert Wege und Möglichkeiten zur zivilen Konfliktlösung, zur Wahrung der Menschenrechte und zur Zukunftssicherung. Web: