About

Nora Almeida is an urban swimmer, performance artist, and activist based in Lenapehoking. Her art explores intersections of archiving, environmental investigation, and spatial disruption. Long term public artworks and performances—Refuge (onoing), Creek: Two Cavities of the Heart (ongoing), Open Water (ongoing), Last Street End in Gowanus (2021), and Land Use Intervention Library (2022)—focus on relationships between people, more-than-human species, emergency, and urban ecology. She co-founder of the Hydrofeminist Map Collective and an educator at CUNY.