Em > ME

Em Piro is an artist, activist, organizer and performance researcher focused on material and virtual geographies, the politics of assembly, ecology, and decolonial feminism. Hxr art and research has been presented in galleries, theatres, uhaul trucks, bars, universities, basements, street corners and riverfronts in St Louis, Toronto, New York, Seattle, Stockholm, Lisbon, Montreal, Edinburgh and in cyberspace. Other people have given hxr awards. 

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Favored media: bodies, cardboard, audio/sound, analog, everyday things, built and natural environment, sometimes stilts

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Interested in: temporality, landscapes of performance, everyday tech, the hyper-intimate (inside ur canals) and massive (transcontinental), economics, memory, mamory < that was a typo and i kept it

Keywords: human-ecological collaboration, vibrant materialism, heterotopia, landscapes, innerspace, queer ecologies, ecofeminism, object ontologies

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Things not "specifically" art-making: activism, organizing, advocacy, reimagining the economy, smashing the patriarchy. I sit on a board and I run a nonprofit.