100 Years of Absent Academy

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.