Arts & Ecology Incorporated
2015-Present
Co-founded by Tal Beery and Eugenia Manwelyan in 2015, Arts & Ecology Incorporated supports artists and organizations exploring the connections between nature and culture.
On Community-Based Art and Catastrophe
Written with Adriene Jenik, Li Sumpter, and Joshua Moses
Published by Haverford’s Center for the Arts and Humanities
Oct 1, 2022
Owning Earth Catalog
Jun 11, 2022
Preface
In Brooke Singer’s Unison
Eureka! Press, 2021
Eliza Evans: All The Way To Hell
Tusten Heritage Community Garden (Narrowsburg, NY)
Sep 23-Nov 8, 2021
Image: Eliza Evans
Owning Earth
Unison Arts (New Paltz, NY)
Jun 26-Oct 20, 2022
An outdoor sculptural exhibition in which installations challenge notions of domination over our environments and imagine alternatives based on mutuality and reverence.
Image: Sam Spillman, Bad Mouth (2021)
in the absence of a proper mourning
Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
Mar 24 – May 18, 2021
An outdoor installation and online space to gather testimonials from Maryland residents who have had to say goodbye or memorialize their loved ones under conditions of social distancing.
Living and Working in Other Worlds
Published in Art Papers
Summer 2020
“If we are to create a plurality of worlds guided by reverence and mutuality, it is particularly important for art-thinkers to organize new cultural institutions.”
Art, etc.
Fall 2019
Eco Practicum
2010-2019
A desk-free school for ecological justice, bridging the gap between learning and doing. Immersive programs for college students, recent grads, and adult learners in the NYC/Catskills bioregion.
Debtfair New Mexico
516 Arts (Albuquerque, NM)
Nov 17, 2018 – Feb 23, 2019
and those black braids
LABA Live | 14th Street Y (New York City)
Mar 22, 2018
Instituent Practices: Art After (Public) Institutions
Published in Temporary Art Review
Jan 2, 2018
“Instituent practices seem to have arisen from the desire to constitute frameworks that prolong fleeting moments of utopian possibility.”
Newburgh Slow School
Atlas Studios (Newburgh, NY)
Dec 10, 2017
A 6-hour multi-part discussion event bringing together a diverse range voices and perspectives—artists, real estate developers, historians, activists, and others—to discuss the past, present, and future of Newburgh. Each hour, new invited guests were introduced to act as thematic anchors.
Land and Time
Atlas Studios (Newburgh, NY)
A Momenta Art Exhibition
Co-curated with Eric Heist
Nov 4-Dec 17, 2017
Image: Alison Moritsugu
Reading Residency
Multiple Locations
2015-2017
Glossary of Institutional Prefixes
Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase College, NY)
Apr 5-19, 2017
A multimedia installation inspired by research and speculation into the nature of contemporary institutions, and the language, aesthetics, and assumptions governing their behaviors.
Sinking Cities
Purchase College Center for Community and Culture (Yonkers, NY)
Co-curated with Steven Lam
Apr 15-29, 2017
Debtfair Whitney
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Mar 13-Jun 11, 2017
Debtfair (a project of Occupy Museums) is a means of exposing the hidden layer of debt within the art market and its institutions, making visible the relationships between art practices and financial realities in the U.S.
Eroding Plazas and Accumulating Resistance
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY)
2016