Index of the Disappeared - Exhibition Documentation
Index of the Disappeared's initial project history (04-06) can be found here.
Our most recent critical text about the project, "Notes on the Index" (2008), can be downloaded as a PDF here.
Earlier critical writing and text-based projects can be found here.
The web-based component of the project, commissioned by Turbulence in 2004, can be found
here.
Information on and documentation of our March 2008 discussion series, Tracing the Index, can be found here.
Online photo albums of documentation from recent exhibitions of our collaborative project Index of the Disappeared (2004-07) can be found at the following links.
1) Text drawn from the Index archive, installed as site-specific, large-scale vinyl lettering, hand-lettering with paint pen on clear vinyl, and also distributed on free postcards (edition of 500 postcards with 25 different texts) in Arabic and English. Version shown at the Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, for the exhibition Spectral Evidence, curated by Steven Lam. January-March 2007.
Images here.
2) Images and text fragments from the Index archive, combined with protest slogans and proverbs circulating in communities connected to the Index, installed as neon signs, site-specific vinyl lettering, and vinyl on Lexan panels in Urdu, Arabic and English in the windows of Exit Art, New York, for the exhibition Sultana's Dream, curated by Jaishri Abichandani. August 2007.
Images here.
3) The Index archive installed as a non-circulating library with reading/writing lounge in the gallery in the UBS corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan for the exhibition 25 Years Later: Welcome to Art In General, curated by Sofia Hernandez. August-November 2007.
Images here.
Video or audio of the library orientation session led by Chitra and Mariam here.
4) A site-specific/responsive version of the Index archive, Index of the Disappeared: Codes of Conduct, installed at the Park Avenue Armory for Creative Time's Democracy in America: The National Campaign, curated by Nato Thompson. September 2008.
Images of the installation here and of the slideshow played in the installation here.
Index of the Disappeared is a collaboration, ongoing since 2004, between artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani.
Recent press:
WNYC
NY Times
New Yorker
NY Sun
Download selected press clippings as a 503K PDF
