<div dir="ltr">hi everyone,<br>In this week's discussion about the politics of social practice we'll shift our focus to thinking concretely about the practices of a few of our guests, and how those practices attempt to confront neoliberalism and gentrification. Those guests are Miguel Elizalde, Erin McElroy, and Macon Reed -- see bios below. I've asked each guest to simply describe a recent or on-going project, and, where applicable, reflect on themes of social practice and social reproduction that surfaced last week.<br><br>Miguel Elizalde (Spain / US) is a Spanish artist and educator living in Winona, Minnesota. Words were his first tool, later was video and nowadays is space & sound. Nowadays, most of his work is about the presence of infrasound in public spaces, however, I continue using any of those three tools depending of the project.<br><br>He also has 20 years of experience creating commercial communication campaigns for all type of brands and companies. At this time, he holds the position of Assistant Professor of Transmedia at Winona State University.<br><br>Erin McElroy (US) cofounded/directs the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project - a data visualization, data analysis, and oral history collective documenting the dispossession and resistance of Bay Area residents in the wake of the Tech Boom 2.0. As a doctoral candidate in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Erin engages postsocialist analytics and critical race and ethnicity studies to study tech-induced racialized dispossession in the Silicon Valley region and in Romania. Erin holds a MA in Cultural Anthropology, is a scholar with the “Oakland School” of Urban Studies, and is an active organizer with the mutual aid collective Eviction Free San Francisco.<br><br>Macon Reed (US) is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose works probe the notion of optimism through queer and feminist lens, examining the lines between transformation and failure, trauma and healing, playfulness and escapism. Drawing on rituals of normative enculturation with regard to team socialization and competition, her work interrogates the limits of optimism and the point(s) at which cheerfulness becomes self-destructive, with a specific interest in physical performance and sculpture.<br><br>looking forward to a vibrant conversation,<br>kyle<br><br>--<br><a href="http://www.kylemckinley.com/">http://www.kylemckinley.com/</a><br><a href="http://buildingcollective.org/">http://buildingcollective.org/</a><br><div>
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