Tal Beery is an artist, activist, and educator from New York City. He is co-founder and co-director of Arts and Ecology, a multidisciplinary institute committed to research, art, and education on radical environmental themes. Beery’s personal and collaborative works have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, Poland, and Germany. As a core member of Occupy Museums and a founding member of Debtfair, he has helped organize large-scale and more intimate interventions to call out economic and social injustices propagated by institutions of art and culture. He currently serves as core faculty at School of Apocalypse, a radical learning community that examines the connections between creative expansion and notions of survival. Beery’s written work and interviews on art and social change have been published in numerous publications including Spike Art, Temporary Art Review, and Revolt.
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Current research interests
My research interests revolve around expanded notions infrastructure (after theorist Irit Rogoff), with a special focus on cultural and pedagogical efforts to address global ecological crisis. What roles do contemporary practitioners, especially artists and rogue educators, play in extending adaptive cultural infrastructure? How do they define success? Which historical practices do they draw from?
Affiliations
Eco Practicum, Co-Founder and Director
We are a desk-free school for ecological justice, bridging the gap between learning and doing.
School of Apocalypse, Founding Faculty
A radical learning community examining the connections between creative practice and notions of survival.
Occupy Museums, Core Member
Artist and activist collective staging public interventions to link high finance and high culture.
Debtfair, Founding Member
Collaborative experiment in aesthetics and debt solidarity in the arts.
Momenta Art, Board Member
Momenta Art is a nonprofit gallery showing critical art projects by emerging and underrepresented artists.
Critical Practices, Inc. (CPI), Advisory Board Member
CPI is a dynamic network of cultural producers engaged in the shaping of critical discourse.
We are a desk-free school for ecological justice, bridging the gap between learning and doing.
School of Apocalypse, Founding Faculty
A radical learning community examining the connections between creative practice and notions of survival.
Occupy Museums, Core Member
Artist and activist collective staging public interventions to link high finance and high culture.
Debtfair, Founding Member
Collaborative experiment in aesthetics and debt solidarity in the arts.
Momenta Art, Board Member
Momenta Art is a nonprofit gallery showing critical art projects by emerging and underrepresented artists.
Critical Practices, Inc. (CPI), Advisory Board Member
CPI is a dynamic network of cultural producers engaged in the shaping of critical discourse.
Special thanks
Bess Adler
Beth Schiffer
Eugenia Manwelyan
Noah Fischer
Imani Jacqueline Brown
Maureen Connor
Artur Zmijewski
Pawel Althamer
Gabriella Czosco
Minister Erik McGregor
Kenneth Pietrobono
Arthur Polendo
Beth Schiffer
Eugenia Manwelyan
Noah Fischer
Imani Jacqueline Brown
Maureen Connor
Artur Zmijewski
Pawel Althamer
Gabriella Czosco
Minister Erik McGregor
Kenneth Pietrobono
Arthur Polendo
