Their work against the archive has led to a practice of counter surveillance that examines the politics of place, sight, and scarcity, in which found material is used as a means of imagining abundance in the face of widespread dispossession. Through the pursuit of alternative modes of documentation and cultural preservation in collaboration marginalized and oppressed communities, they seek forms and means of memory work that do not rely on imperial and colonial tools of capture and subjugation and instead rehearse collective liberation. Their work is highly informed by the resilience of organizing movements for abolition, self-determination, and liberation in Chicago, SE Michigan, and the broader Midwest.
Mira holds a Master of Art’s in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from the University of Michigan where they studied Ethnic Studies, Art History, and Ceramics.
They currently work with the following organizations: Walls Turned Sideways, The Digs, Patric McCoy Legacy Project/Diasporal Rhythms, Groundcover News, Michigan Student Power Alliance, and NON:Opera Arts & Humanities.
MISC WORK —
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Collaborative quilt project led by Stevie Emrich and Margaret Dugger
- “quilt church has been a project of symbiotic learning and growing. few members of our group (if any) had participated in a quilt project this big and yet we moved through it all together with ease and surprising pace... thank you to our first Quilt-Church-goers for such devotion, flexibility, and generosity to share time + knowledge. also a giant big huge thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets to benefit @orangetentproject [Orange Tent Project] - we raised a total of $1,060 !! The quilt will find its home with QC's very own absolute quilting wizard, Trish!”
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