Index of the Disappeared: Secrets Told Opening Reception

February 10 – March 21, 2014
11 – 5PM

Index of the Disappeared: Secrets Told is a site-specific installation of images, sound, texts, and documents related to leak prosecutions, the surveillance state, and the persistence of the panopticon in the prison-industrial complex.

The installation is on view at the A/P/A Institute at NYU gallery (8 Washington Mews, between University Place and Fifth Avenue) February 10-March 21, 2014, 11AM-5PM, Monday-Friday. Opening reception: Thursday, February 13, 2014, 6-8PM.

Index of the Disappeared: Watch This Space presents a series of posters and site-specific installations in the windows of the NYU Kimmel Center, referencing black sites, rendition, redaction, decryption, kleptography, and surveillance-evasion techniques, including the method adopted by librarians to circumvent gag orders imposed by National Security Letters—posting a public sign that says “We have never been served an NSL; watch this space for the removal of this sign.”

Index of the Disappeared: Watch This Space will be on view in NYU’s Kimmel Windows Gallery from Monday, April 14-Monday, May 19, 2014. The windows are located on LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street and are viewable from the street, 24/7. Opening talk and reception: Friday, April 19, 2014, 6:30-9PM.

Index of the Disappeared: Parasitic Archive installs a library-within-a-library version of the Index archive in the Richard Ettinghausen Library at the NYU Kevorkian Center, integrating literary and media resources culled from the library’s collection, with primary source documents from the Index’s collection, to tempo- rarily re-design the library environment.

Index of the Disappeared: Parasitic Archive will be on view at the Richard Ettinghausen Library, NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies (50 Washington Square South, entrance at 255 Sullivan Street) from April 7-May 12, 2014, Monday-Friday, 9AM-5PM except when occasional lectures take place. Please see neareaststudies.as.nyu.edu/page/eventsbefore planning your visit. Opening talk and reception: Friday, April 19, 2014, 6:30-9PM.