BOOKS AND VOLUMES
EDITED BOOK
Published by McGill-Queens University Press, this volume features a series of essays from world leading thinkers on the issue of disappearance & the artwork of Chantal Meza. The book also features a full colour catalogue of the works.
SPECIAL VOLUME
Special edited volume of the Philosopher featuring a series of essays from a range of academics on disappearance & oblivion. The artwork of Chantal Meza also features throughout the edition.
AUTHORED BOOK
Published by Columbia University Press, 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.
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
DISAPPEARANCE OF WORLDS
Official exhibition catalogue for the 2025 Disappearance of Worlds exhibition to be held in the City of Oxford. It features a full catalogue of works. A download version will be available shortly.
STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE
Official exhibition catalogue for the 2023 State of Disappearance art exhibition held in the City of Bristol. It features full catalogue of works, a foreword by curators and interview with artist. It can be downloaded by following link above.
EDEN BLEEDS
Official exhibition catalogue for the 2025 Eden Bleeds exhibition to be held in the City of Bristol. It features a full catalogue of works. A download version will be available shortly.
JOURNALS AND EXTENDED ESSAYS
FOCUS ON DISAPPEARANCE
Launch edition of On Violence magazine featuring several articles and reviews on disappearance from leading thinkers. Full PDF available from link.
PRIMAL FEAR
Essay published in the Philosopher dealing with the terror of disappearance and the weaponisation of nothingness. PDF available and linked above.
ALWAYS THERE
Essay published in the Philosopher dealing with the aesthetics of disappearance and the importance of a poetic response. PDF available and linked above.
BACON AND DISAPPEARANCE
Essay titled "Brutality of Fact: Violence, Disappearance & the Promise of Oblivion in the Art of Francis Bacon" published in the Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies.
LONG-READ ESSAY
Long-read essay on "How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, 50 years on from Chile’s US-backed coup" published in the online academic forum, The Conversation.
JUST SEPTEMBER
Essay marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11 published in the LA Review of Books. It addresses the interplay between spectacles of violence & disappearance by looking at Gerhard Richter's painting "September."
MEDIA ESSAYS AND FEATURES
DISAPPEARANCE OF WORLDS
Official exhibition catalogue for the 2025 Disappearance of Worlds exhibition to be held in the City of Oxford. It features a full catalogue of works. A download version will be available shortly.
STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE
Official exhibition catalogue for the 2023 State of Disappearance art exhibition held in the City of Bristol. It features full catalogue of works, a foreword by curators and interview with artist. It can be downloaded by following link above.
ON DISAPPEARANCE
Article and Featured artwork for the German Magazine Science and Peace addressing disappearance from an art perspective.
ART AGAINST OBLIVION
Article on the State of Disappearance Exhibition at CentreSpace Gallery in Bristol. Published in Trebuchet art Magazine. ISSUE 15. To purchase please visit the magazine website.
WHITE WALLS IN UNIVERSITIES
Article on The Times Higher Education "White-walled lecture theatres are a missed teaching opportunity". To read full article please visit the website.
ART ON CAMPUS
Published at Bath Time Student Magazine, this article by Megan Johnstone explores the Art on Campus initiative and the State of Disappearance Series.
THE CONVERSATION
How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control.
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.
REVIEW OF EDUCATION, PEDAGOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
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.
ARTICLE ADDRESSING ART AND EDUCATION
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.
THE INTIMATE WITNESS
Conversation between Chantal Meza & Brad Evans titled "The Intimate Witness" published at the start of the project as part of the Histories of Violence series in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
PROGRAMME OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Article on the Disappearance of Worlds Exhibition and Events that took place at Pembroke College, University of Oxford in June, 2025.
ARTLIST
Early review published in 2017 at the start of the project in Artlyst titled "Chantal Meza: Painting a State of Terror". That was the original title given to the preliminary exploratory works produced by the artist.