Mirra (first row, 2nd from right) with the keynote speaker, panelists, and organizers.
Mirra-Margarita Ianeva participated in a panel at the 60th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium in November. This year’s theme considered revolution as a mode of imagining new ways of seeing, knowing, and acting in the field of art history. Mirra presented a paper titled “Sacred Groves as Ecological Resistance,” which discussed the recent work of activist and media artist Imani Jacqueline Brown—from an investigation with Forensic Architecture that addresses environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley to newer solo projects that envision non-extractive land practices rooted in Louisianian communities’ reverence for the dead.