The “State of Disappearance” series will ask urgent questions about extreme violence, the normalization of human vanishing, state and ideological complicity, and memorialization, along with wider concerns about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. Political philosopher Brad Evans and abstract painter Chantal Meza will be joined by a series of guests to explore the states of disappearance into which life is continually thrown.
What does it mean to resist oblivion? Can this be explained through attending to the intensive interplays between appearance and the vanishing of life? In this conversation with Gil Anidjar, we will interrogate the drama of the political as it relates to rituals of disappearance. The talk will address the politics of stasis and the links between sovereignty, the logics of forgetting and repression. It will then move onto rethinking the art of disappearance through an excavation of the word where the disappearance opens up a space to transform into d-ance. The art of dance thus returns here, reminding us of the way that it, too, disappears from politics and the choreographed movements of the body politic. Can the political dance, or can we dance politics? Can we re-imagine the pure movements of dance just as we learn to detect traces on a canvas of life?
This conversation is part of the ongoing State of Disappearance project: www.historiesofviolence.com/s...
Gil Anidjar is professor of religion, comparative literature, and Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University. His research interests include Political Theology, Race and Religion, and Continental Philosophy.
Academic Homepage: religion.columbia.edu/content...
Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer whose work focuses on the problem of violence. He is the author of twenty books and edited volumes, along with over a hundred and fifty academic and international media articles. He is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Violence and holds a Chair in Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath.
Website: www.brad-evans.co.uk
Chantal Meza is a self-taught abstract painter living and working in the United Kingdom. Her works have been exhibited in more than 30 group and individual exhibitions in prominent museums and galleries in Mexico, Paraguay, and the United Kingdom.
Website: www.chantal-meza.com
30 ноя 2023
