Recent Responses

The comments below make me realise how vast, how sprawling the theme of disappearance is...  I'm not sure that it will always be the case, but right now in this process I want to hold on to the breadth of ideas.  The variety of individual definitions/circumstances of disappearance and the way in which they overlap (converge?) at some point in the distance draws me.


'Harrison Birtwistle is composing a requiem for moths that have become extinct. He said "It will be personal, anecdotal, and will be about beings that are no longer there." '

'I do like the reference between people disappearing and the idea of the magician’s assistant. This could act as a really exciting parallel, which the audience could easily relate to, taking them through the stages of excitement, anxiety, disbelief and resolution that the act contains.'

'This made me think of the elderlies that disappear without moving location/environment, ie into their own minds/memories, where the location is irrelevant.  They have already disappeared as the person you knew and have reappeared in several different guises since then.  You too have disappeared from their lives and reappeared as someone else, sometimes as some other relative of theirs.'

'A forced disappearance occurs when a person is secretly imprisoned or killed by agents of the state or by another party, such as a terrorist or criminal group. The party responsible for a disappearance does not admit to having carried out the act, thereby placing the victim outside the protection of the law.
The corpse is disposed of in such a way as to prevent it ever being found, so that the person apparently vanishes. The party committing the murder has deniability, as there is no body to prove that the victim has actually died.'