The Latinx Artists Utilizing Instagram to Battle Erasure in a Gentrifying Los Angeles
Touchdown on the Metropolis of Los Angeles's web site, you are met with a digital tour of Echo Park. An aerial view of the lake on the golden hour sweeps in the direction of the frothy fountain; white swan-shaped paddle boats teeter in anticipation of vacationers; and the jagged enamel of Downtown LA's skyline sharpen within the distance. What you do not see are Angelenos. The park is empty, with solely visitors gliding gracefully alongside its edges. This isn't Mi Vida Loca 's Echo Parque, brimming with sisterhood, sacrifice, and Unhappy Woman emotions. The LA marketed here's a personless metropolis. Songs like "Strolling in LA" indicate social alienation: a metropolis of loners enclosed of their automobiles, driving from one natural eatery to a different. Chris Kraus opened her e-book Social Practices with the belief that Los Angeles is just not, actually, a metropolis "immune from the forces of world gentrification." However this imaginat...