100 Years of Absent Academy

W139 is a presentation and production space for contemporary art. W139 was established in 1979 and provides artists time and space for free explorations in the heart of Amsterdam.

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Absent Academy celebrates their 100-year anniversary, dedicated to the memory of those who have been forcibly disappeared.

Join Absent Academy this weekend on 19 and 20 July for a public drawing session to celebrate their 100-year anniversary, dedicated to the memory of those who have been forcibly disappeared.⁠ ⁠ In these drawing exercises, Agat Sharma and Sîpan Sezgin Tekin explore how to speak about enforced disappearances under the looming threat of state violence and surveillance. They imagine a new country—one where it is possible to confront and process enforced disappearances. Maybe a new country for all those who have been made to disappear by the deep state.⁠ ⁠Absent Academy is a semi-public pedagogic space, aiming to think about enforced disappearances, which is an extrajudicial practice employed by deep state actors across Central and South Asia.

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