Part of the Practice
What is social practice, and how does it affect the ways we navigate our lives and make change in the world? Join artists, scholars, and collaborators from Social Practice CUNY on Part of the Practice, hosted by Catherine LaSota, as we discuss our individual art practices, our communities, and the role of socially-engaged art in our work for social justice.
Part of the Practice
02: Evolution of a Practice in the Public Sphere with Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga
Our second episode of Part of the Practice features SPCUNY Faculty Fellow Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga in conversation with host Catherine LaSota. Ricardo is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College CUNY, as well as Director of the Emerging Media Program. In this discussion, he shares the various steps of his career path that have led him to this point, the ways that he is inspired by CUNY students and by New York City, and his future hopes for his art practice in the public sphere.
FULL TRANSCRIPT of Episode 02 available here.
About our guest:
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga approaches art as a social practice that seeks to establish dialogue in public spaces. Having been born to immigrant parents and grown up between Nicaragua and San Francisco, a strong awareness of inequality and discrimination was established at an early age. The ways that disparity and power manifest themselves in our lives are consistent threads in Zúñiga’s work. Themes such as immigration, discrimination, gentrification and the effects of monetization extend from highly subjective experiences and observations into works that tactically engage others through popular metaphors while maintaining critical perspectives. Zúñiga maintains a research-based practice that combines hand-made with emerging technologies to present content in a manner that may generate interaction and discussion among participants. Zúñiga’s work has been exhibited at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the New York Hall of Science, the Museum of the Moving Image.
More about Ricardo:
Website: ambriente.com
Instagram: @ambriente
TikTok: @ricardomirandazuniga
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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.