Blog #12
our trip to the culture center: one of the most meaningful works was the index of disappeared by Mariam Ghana and Chitra Ganesh. although there were many beautiful art works in this exhibition this work brought the purpose of this exhibition together: "Since 2004, Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani have collaborated on the Index of the Disappeared, a site-specific installation that operates both as a physical archive of post-9/11 disappearances-detentions, deportations, renditions, and redactions-and a mobile platform for public dialogue. The massive collection draws on radical archival, legal, and activist traditions to draw unlikely connections between seemingly disparate forms of state violence. According to the artists, "The point of the Index is not to collect everything relevant that is released into the public domain, but to sort through masses of information to retrieve and preserve small bits of significance, and then to make the connections that allow others to underst...
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