Chantal Meza
Biographic Data
| ID | 2321781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chantal Meza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chantal |
| FAMILY NAME | Meza |
| SIGNATURE | MEZA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Artist, Bristol, UK |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4606-5116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond the gaze violence, disappearance & the art of the feminine touch
This essay addresses gendered violence and enforced disappearances in Mexico. Offering a distinct artist perspective, which draws upon my life’s experiences, work and public engagements, I address the challenges of addressing such violence and what it means for rethinking relations of power. Setting out the history of disappearance and the aesthetic challenges it presents, especially in terms of the relationship between tragedy and beauty, I look…
Introduction to a new section on art and society
A study for a bomb
How do I prepare for annihilation? How do I prepare myself to be annihilated? How do they prepare to annihilate me? I as a painter step into the studio. Those as inventors of bombs, step into laboratories. There is a study to do, with similar paths, yet our tasks are different. Creation and destruction. But what is being created? And what is being destroyed? Annihilation aesthetics is a curious term. Visible and invisible. Here and not here, pres…
The brutality of fact: Violence, disappearance and the promise of oblivion in the art of Francis Bacon
This essay addresses the violence of disappearance and oblivion in the artwork of Francis Bacon. Drawing upon the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and wider thinking on the aesthetics of violence, the paper argues that the real violence in Bacon is to attend to the violence of the void. Having explained the theoretical basis for this, the essay proceeds to provide a critique of the violence of disappearance in a technological age, noting how the lines bet…
The Techno-Theodicy: How Technology Became the New Religion
This essay addresses the rise of what is understood to be a global techno-theodicy. Recognizing the pandemic of 2020 as representing the first crisis of the post-liberal order, it maps out the changing nature of religious power as it relates to the appropriation of the abstract, from earlier claims on the monotheistic God to the powers of salvation and redemption invested in technology today. Technology in these terms is no longer seen as enablin…
Narcissus in three acts
This essay will address the narcissism of techno-nihilism into which life is being thrown. Written by a political theorist and artist, it looks specifically at the way technology is colonizing the political and artistic imagination. The essay is written over three acts, which traverse the logics of space and time. Act 1 is written by Brad Evans and situated in the year 2038. Based in Zacatecas, Mexico, he imagines a world where the university is …
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The Techno-Theodicy: How Technology Became the New Religion
This essay addresses the rise of what is understood to be a global techno-theodicy. Recognizing the pandemic of 2020 as representing the first crisis of the post-liberal order, it maps out the changing nature of religious power as it relates to the appropriation of the abstract, from earlier claims on the monotheistic God to the powers of salvation and redemption invested in technology today. Technology in these terms is no longer seen as enablin…
Narcissus in three acts
This essay will address the narcissism of techno-nihilism into which life is being thrown. Written by a political theorist and artist, it looks specifically at the way technology is colonizing the political and artistic imagination. The essay is written over three acts, which traverse the logics of space and time. Act 1 is written by Brad Evans and situated in the year 2038. Based in Zacatecas, Mexico, he imagines a world where the university is …
The brutality of fact: Violence, disappearance and the promise of oblivion in the art of Francis Bacon
This essay addresses the violence of disappearance and oblivion in the artwork of Francis Bacon. Drawing upon the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and wider thinking on the aesthetics of violence, the paper argues that the real violence in Bacon is to attend to the violence of the void. Having explained the theoretical basis for this, the essay proceeds to provide a critique of the violence of disappearance in a technological age, noting how the lines bet…
A study for a bomb
How do I prepare for annihilation? How do I prepare myself to be annihilated? How do they prepare to annihilate me? I as a painter step into the studio. Those as inventors of bombs, step into laboratories. There is a study to do, with similar paths, yet our tasks are different. Creation and destruction. But what is being created? And what is being destroyed? Annihilation aesthetics is a curious term. Visible and invisible. Here and not here, pres…
Beyond the gaze violence, disappearance & the art of the feminine touch
This essay addresses gendered violence and enforced disappearances in Mexico. Offering a distinct artist perspective, which draws upon my life’s experiences, work and public engagements, I address the challenges of addressing such violence and what it means for rethinking relations of power. Setting out the history of disappearance and the aesthetic challenges it presents, especially in terms of the relationship between tragedy and beauty, I look…
Introduction to a new section on art and society
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gaze (2 works) · History (2 works)