While nationally sanctioned monuments traditionally commemorate those who perished in battle, Yamaguchi and Cruz\u2019s\u00a0Non-memorial<\/em>\u00a0recognizes marginalized victims of often secret persecutions, revealing the staggering number of known deaths and disappearances resulting from systemic oppression; traumatic killings that are, in many cases, not recognized as crimes. The\u00a0Non-memorial<\/em>\u00a0is a digital film projection of names.<\/p>\n It is mobile and fleeting so it derives its significance from what it is not. It is not a memorial; it is not permanent; it does not provide closure, nor is it indicative of justice. It can be anywhere because it is nowhere, and it is nothing until leaders\/governments make the changes necessary to prevent more deaths of environmental activists.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0Mika Yamaguchi<\/strong>\u00a0is an architectural designer and artist.\u00a0 She received an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Queens University and completed her Master in Architecture from the University of Toronto, Canada. Aside from designing buildings, she is particularly interested in looking critically at the use of architectural devices and the efficacy of memorials in representing traumatic events.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0Orion Cruz<\/strong>\u00a0is a lawyer who focuses on environmental law and policy, human rights, climate change, and Latin American affairs.\u00a0 He has worked on legal cases and campaigns related to human rights and the environment throughout Latin America, attended multiple global climate change conferences, and published articles about environmental issues and Latin American politics.\u00a0 He is currently based in Hawaii.<\/p>\n \u2022 \u00a0Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg<\/strong>\u00a0is an international environmental lawyer who graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in the United States in 2012.\u00a0 Since graduating, she has worked on human rights issues related to extractive industries at the international level. She has also participated in local fossil fuel divestment actions near her home in the San Francisco Bay area of California.\u00a0 She is in Paris this month to fight for justice for the communities that are most impacted by climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Lost Defenders of the Environment calls attention to the 991 documented environmental activists who were killed or the victims of enforced disappearances from 2002 to 2014 in thirty-nine countries. It was created by Mika Yamaguchi, Orion Cruz, and\u00a0Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg for ARTCOP21, the global cultural festival on climate change\u00a0that ran concurrently with\u00a0the Global Climate Change…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-artists","category-rising-waters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7pXN0-5J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"TheLostDefenders_3-1200x780\"](\"http:\/\/www.annefocke.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/TheLostDefenders_3-1200x780-300x195.jpg\")
The Lost Defenders of the Environment calls attention to the 991 documented environmental activists who were killed or the victims of enforced disappearances from 2002 to 2014 in thirty-nine countries. It was created by Mika Yamaguchi, Orion Cruz, and\u00a0Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg for ARTCOP21<\/a>, the global cultural festival on climate change\u00a0that ran concurrently with\u00a0the Global Climate Change talks\u00a0in Paris in late 2015. Cruz also participated in the Rising Waters Confa<\/a>b at the Rauschenberg Residency.<\/p>\n
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