STATE OF DISAPPEARANCE
This Project brings art into conversation with academics & advocacy groups to raise awareness and instigate public debate. Addressing themes of enforced disappearance, feminicide, slavery, genocide and indigenous persecution, it responds to the most pressing concerns facing our shared humanity.
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"D__ance: for the Disappeared" is an interdisciplinary collaboration between abstract painter Chantal Meza the Dance artists Catherine Guerin, Miriam Markl and Elisabeth Kaul and Composer John Psathas. In this event, framed by the melodic composition "Corybas" the dancers perform while the painter attempts to capture their movements on canvas in real time. The visual effects are then further intensified when, together with the painter, the dancers trace their own movements with paint, leaving traces of their otherwise fleeting motions on the canvas. These will later become part of the finished painting. The audience experiences LIVE, the process of creating an artwork.
"Disappearance is marked by a devastating absence.
It constitutes a form of violence that rips open a wound in time.
It offers no viable recovery and no meaningful justice.
It provisions alibis to perpetrators, while denying the victims their very humanity.
And for those who are left to live with its presence, the terror is unending."
Brad Evans & Chantal Meza
Project Directors
The Political Philosopher Brad Evans & Artist Chantal Meza discuss their State of Disappearance Project.