STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE
Featured Artwork & Texts
Chantal's 'State of Disappearance' complete catalogue. 12 Essays from renowned intellectuals. Introduction & Essay by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza.
McGill Queen's University Press
CANADA
ART AGAINST OBLIVION
Article and Featured Artwork
Trebuchet Art Magazine
LONDON
STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE
Official Exhibition Catalogue
Featured all artwork from Chantal's series State of Disappearance.
You can download the PDF version here
or you can aquire the catalogue at any of Chantal's exhibitions.
University of Bath Press
UNITED KINGDOM
VISUALISING ABSENCE
Featured Artwork & Article
Edited by Brad Evans. Contributions on this have been provided by Elise Feron, Valérie Rosoux, Terrell Carver, Lina Malagon and Ana Cristina Portillo, Roddy Brett, Richard English, Phil Scraton, Daniele Rugo, and Chantal Meza. As a Mexican artist whose work has intimately dealt with the issues of disappearance and violence, Chantal’s work is also featured throughout the edition alongside her essay "The Disappeared where always there".
The Philosopher
USA - UK
ON VIOLENCE MAGAZINE
Featured Artwork & Article
Chantal's piece "Obscure Beasts" from her State of Disappearance Series as the cover of the magazine. Her essay "Violent ways of seeing the image" is also published here.
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White-walled lecture theatres are a missing teaching opportunity
Article
Reflective article based on educational experiences of state of disappearance exhibition at CentreSpace Gallery, Bristol.
Centre for the Study of Violence
BATH
Times Higher Education
ECCE HUMANITAS
Writing on Art, Disappearance and Politics
​This book addresses the relationship between representations of sacred violence, conceptions of the void, and what this means for confronting the issues of disappearance and human annihilation.
You can purchase this book following this link.
Columbia University Press
NEW YORK
IN CONVERSATION WITH CHANTAL MEZA
State of Disappearance
Written by Megan Johnstone, this interview and article on the Art on Campus initiative and the State of Disappearance Series takes us to see this project through the student's eyes.
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Bath University
BATH
HOW DISAPPEARANCE BECAME A GLOBAL WEAPON OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL
Article
50 years on from Chile’s US-backed coup, this article looks at the History of Human Disappearance from Chile 9/11 to New York's 9/11 and the more recent history of enforced disappearance in Latin America.
Instituto Zacatecas A.C.
ZACATECAS
The brutality of fact: Violence, disappearance and the promise of oblivion in the art of Francis Bacon
Drawing upon the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and wider thinking on the aesthetics of violence, the paper argues that the real violence in Bacon is to attend to the violence of the void.
Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies
TAYLOR & FRANCIS
Harnessing the power of art to open up a conversation about disappearance
Article by Andy Dunne for the University of Bath, offering an insight of the State of Disappearance Project.
Communications & Engagement
BATH
STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE
Chantal Meza featured as the headline artist with accompanying ‘State of Disappearance’ article in leading policy magazine, W&F Wissenschaft und Frieden (Science & Peace) published in Germany.