It's our first episode of season two! 2021-22 SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Nora Almeida joins host Catherine LaSota to talk about environmental activism, urban swimming, and the subversion of different spaces in Nora’s practices. They also discuss the many forms of life in the city and ponder the question: "What do we do with all of the stuff that we collect?"

FULL TRANSCRIPT of Episode 21 available here.

About our guest:

Nora Almeida is an urban swimmer, social practice and performance artist, educator, and activist based in Lenapehoking. Her art explores intersections of archiving, environmental investigation, and spatial disruption. Recent public artworks—Last Street End in Gowanus (2021), Land Use Intervention Library (2022), Open Water (ongoing), Creek: Two Cavities of the Heart (ongoing), and Refuge (in process)—focus on relationships between people and environmentally disturbed waterfront spaces.

Nora was a 2023-2024 Climate Justice Fellow with Culture Push, a 2022 Water Connector with Works on Water, and a 2021 Social Practice CUNY Faculty Fellow. She has recently shown work / performed at: LMCC on Governors Island, Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse, FEED Media Art Center, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Coney Island Creek, and Valentino Pier. She is co-founder of the Hydrofeminist Map Collective and a long time volunteer at Interference Archive. Her book, The Social Movement Archive, co-authored with Jen Hoyer, was published in 2021.

More about Nora Almeida:

Website: noraalmeida.com
Instagram: @norasays

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Thank you to our podcast editor Jade Iseri-Ramos, and thank you to Gaius LaSota for our Part of the Practice music.
Part of the Practice logo courtesy of Maliyah Mohamed.

Social Practice CUNY is funded by the Mellon Foundation.