About
The Disappearance project began in 2017. Led by Professor Brad Evans & Mexican painter Chantal Meza, at its core has been to bring together art, policy and academia to confront and respond to the most extreme form of violence, which takes us beyond the realms of intelligibility.
Our project has included many exhbitions, events, publications and filmed conversations, which can all be viewed and accessed here.
Exhibitions
State of Disappearance at
the University of Bath
Forthcoming Publication
January 2027
"This book doesn't attempt to explain disappearance but surround it. It confronts it directly yet, it knows there's a point where all words become insufficient. What emerges here is not a closed theory, but a way of inhabiting a wound".
Everardo Gonzalez
Mexican Filmmaker and director
"An ambitious, unsettling and innovative book that places disappearance at the heart of a far-reaching contemporary shift. Evans and Meza turn disappearance into a global lens through which to interpret contemporary forms of violence, power and erasure. It is no longer merely a crime, but an underlying structure of the present. Although rooted in contexts as intense as that of Mexico, the book transcends any national framework to chart a truly global map of disappearance, linking enforced disappearances, ecologies of violence, surveillance regimes and contemporary forms of war and control. Through dense and evocative writing, and a radical intersection of art and theory, the book proposes new ways of seeing that which ‘tends to disappear’. The result is an original and demanding work that compels us to think—and to see—in a different way that which, increasingly, defines our world".
Gabriel Gatti
Professor of Sociology, the University of the Basque Country
Disappeared of History
Global Webinar
Hosted by Brad Evans & Chantal Meza, the Disappeared of History Global Webinar Series produced and managed by the University of Bath features some of the worlds most renowned authorities from the arts, policy, journalism, advocacy and academic spheres dealing with the issue of disappearance. Click photos to access the webinar recordings.
Ruben
Blades
Everardo
Gonzalez
Karla
Quintana
Caroline
Douillez
Luis
Fondebrider
Miriam
Lewin
Marcela
Turati
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webinar films
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podcast recordings
Project Directors
Chantal Meza is a Mexican born painter, whose work for the past decade has confronted the violence, terror, and the complexities of disappearance in both a human and ecological context.
Brad Evans is the founder & director of the Histories of Violence project. He is Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath