Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
Art and the Disappearing Body
Bret W. Davis with Brad Evans and Chantal Meza
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.
In this opening event of the series, renowned philosopher Bret W. Davis will speak on the relationship between art and the bodies that are forcibly disappeared. The conversation will explore the philosophical question of nothingness, what memorialisation in the face of human absence looks like, and what role art can play in recovering the human. You can find out more and register here.