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Exhibitions, Books, Journal Articles and Invited talks
RECENT: 2020-2022
EXHIBITION: “EMBODIED FOREST” https://ecoartspace.org/Embodied-Forest Online Exhibition Launch: September 1, 2021 Printed Book: October 2021
In the context of this exhibition, the term embodied can be understood as the act of giving a body to something intangible; to incarnate; to stand in the same place of; to become part of a collective body; to personify; or to empathize. The subject matter of your work for Embodied Forest will address the worlds of trees and forests including though not limited to companion species, microbes, root systems, mushrooms, birds, fungus, moss, lichen, mist/fog/water, insects, spiders, parasites, bacteria, etc. The entanglements of a forest are unlimited. We seek to represent an in-depth examination of the interconnectedness of trees with all living things, human and nonhuman. All mediums will be presented and will include performance, sound and video, as well as poetry.
SOLO EXHIBITION: TBA title of show. Hugh N. Ronald Gallery at Arts Place, Inc. in Portland, Indiana
Publication: Techniques Journal: https://techniquesjournal.com/about/
The second issue inquires into techniques used for bordering in worlds fraught with asymmetries. The issue brings together video art, ethnography, design fiction, philosophy, border studies, activism, post-development theory, and experimental curation to engage what it means to design techniques on the borders—of institutions, economies, citizenship, the nation state and sovereignty, colonial modernity, and the human and nonhuman. Coming late 2021.
EXHIBITION NYC “I AM WATER" JUNE 21- JULY 24, 2021. https://ecoartspace.org/I-AM-WATER-2021 is a public art exhibition organized by Our Humanity Matters and ecoartspace in collaboration with SaveArtSpace. The exhibition consists of ten billboards sited in the borough's of New York City and addresses our relationship with water and our human understanding that we are water. Water is the origin of life with the innate purpose to continue creation. In water, we see that everything is connected and interrelated. Everything is liquid before it becomes solid. Humans, who are mostly water, depend on it to protect our DNA and for our basic survival. Water is not a resource but an essential connection to life. The one-sidedness of modern consciousness and our disconnect from nature increasingly subjects water to pollution. If we do not change our behavior, we will run out of water. We humans cannot be healthy if our waters are not healthy. This exhibition shows water’s mystery and importance and helps to reestablish, on a deep cellular level, the intimate relationship with water that we have lost in modern life. Exhibition Curator: Patricia Watts, founder of ecoartspace. Production Curator: Tanja Andrejasic Wechsler, founder of Our Humanity Matters. Billboard Application and Procurement: Travis and Justin, SaveArtSpace
INVITED JUROR: Judging Art Place’s Biodiversity / Cultural Diversity Juried Art Exhibiton at the Jay County Campus. Attending Awards ceremony on Oct 1, 2021
Environmental Resilience Speaker Series: ERI Research Fellows Elizabeth Grennan Browning and Maria Whiteman will be discussing their exhibit Hoosier Lifelines: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020, which explores Indiana’s changing environment along the remains of the historic Monon Railroad.
Hoosier Lifelines 2019-2022: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020. The installation consist of artifacts, photography, and video media. (Feb 2021) This is a collaborative project initiated by Environmental Historian Lizzie Browning, Eric Sandweiss, Maria Whiteman and Betsy Stirratt. “Our goal is to create an archive for our future communities to understand the historical context of Indiana’s place within global climate change.”The installation consist of artifacts, photography, and video media. (2021 -2022)
Show dates: Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington: Feb - April, 2021
Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany: 2021 and Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City: tentatively Fall 2022
Invited Talk Oct 2020: by Professor Suzanne Anker - New York University, School of Visual Arts, BioArt, on “Living with Mycelia”
Invited Talk March 2021: Distinguished Professor Dr. Bruce Clarke: “Forests” Series of Lectures and Talks, Texas Tech University, March 2021
2021 CAA Conference: Chair: Nicole van Beek, Panelists are Maria Whiteman, Katie Taylor, Yi Hsuan Sung, and Judi Pettite.: In this session, artists and educators using biodegradable materials are invited to present their work and their process. The focus is on artwork made with materials grown in-house or locally, or obtained through waste collection or foraging, that can be composted in personal or municipal facilities. Examples may include mycocomposites or mycofoam, kombucha leather, bioplastics, recycled paper pulp, or bio-based colorants. Presenters will discuss how the life-cycle analysis of materials contributes to the conceptual framework of their practice, and connects to larger conversations about climate change mitigation, waste reduction, and regenerative systems.
“State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity” “State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity will feature artifacts from Indiana’s prehistory alongside visual art that documents biodiversity in Indiana. This multi-phase project will serve to increase literacy about ecological developments, the impact of climate change on everyday life, and encourage awareness of our immediate natural surroundings.”Curated by Director Betsy Stirratand Distinguished Professor Roger Hangarter. Artworks by Indiana artists or artists with connections to Indiana have been selected by the curatorial team with Mark Ruschman, senior curator of art and culture for the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. Items from collections of the Indiana Geological and Water Survey and the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites have been selected with the assistance of Damon Lowe, senior curator of science and technology for the Indiana State Museum an Historic Sites. Placement of these artifacts with contemporary art works will create an out-of-the-ordinary learning experience for visitors, which, we hope, will promote a deeper understanding of our environment. Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design | Indiana University | 1201 E 7th St. Bloomington, IN 47405 | 812 855 8490 | grunwald@indiana.edu. August 28-November 18, 2020 (Grunwald Art Gallery) February 13-July 6, 2021 (Indiana State Museum)
https://soaad.indiana.edu/exhibitions/grunwald-gallery/upcoming/2020-08-28-state-of-nature.html
2020-2021 SYLLABUS Purdue University, Environmental Humanities
Theme: Noah’s Ark and the Environmental Imagination 2020-2021
In a world in the midst of an environmental crisis and an unprecedented need for quarantine, the story of Noah provides a window through which to consider current realities. Where do the floodwaters reach first? What do we choose to preserve? What does it mean to be enclosed in our homes, as Noah’s family was sealed in the ark, a boat with neither rudder nor sail? Is there any longer a high ground to which we can escape? Through art, performance, poetry, and music we will explore the role of the artist in response to calamity. This seminar will compare the biblical flood story to the flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Faculty
Adriana Contino, Cellist and Educator
Dr. Andy Findley, Adjunct Instructor in the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI
Dr. Jason M. Kelly, Professor of History in the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI
Dr. Michael Messina, Director of Music, Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis
Julia Muney Moore, Director of Public Art for the Arts Council of Indianapolis
Stefan Petranek, Associate Professor of Photography in the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI
Dr. Sandy Sasso, Rabbi Emerita of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck
Dr. Carmen-Helena Téllez, Professor of Conducting, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Joseph Tucker Edmonds, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Religious Studies at IUPUI
Shari Wagner, Author and Indiana Poet Laureate (2016-2017)
Maria Whiteman, Research Scholar, Environmental Resilience Institute at IU Bloomington
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2019 -2021 Vice President of the Society of Literature, Science and the Arts. Executive Board Member. https://www.litsciarts.org/ We are an active society that includes sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists. SLSA members share an interest in problems of science and representation, and in the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.
Art Liaison, The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2017- Present
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BOOK
“Art in the Age of Deep Time” Press TBA (forthcoming)
ARTICLES Published and Forthcoming
“Touching Polar Bears,” Howe, Cymene and Pandian, Anand. "Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, online website -- https://maria-whiteman.squarespace.com/view-publications?p Punctum Books Published, Nov 2019
“Eco-love in a world we share with fungi and other living organisms,” Polygraph Journal, Duke University (Aug 2020). Polygraph issue 28 is up! “Marxism and Climate Change” features articles from Matthew T. Huber, Amanda Boetzkes, Joseph Ren & Brent Ryan Bellamy, Amy Riddle, Maria Whiteman, and Jeff Diamanti & Imre Szeman; reviews from Benjamin Crais, Jessica Gokhberg, Lucas Power, and Jordan Sjol; interviews with Jason W. Moore and Christian Parenti; and an introduction from Casey Williams and Claire Ravenscroft. All contributions are available open access at https://polygraphjournal.com/issue-28-marxism-and-climate-change/.
“Med-Eco Humanities: Exploring the Intersections between Medicine and the Environmental Humanities.” The aim of this book is the search for a different set of co-literary imaginaries centering around categories such as body/physicality, mind/emotions and abstract theories of disease, disrepair, treatment and recovery. Swarnalatha Rangarajan co-editing with Prof.Scott Slovic (Professor, Interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities, University of Idaho) IIT Jodhpur. (July 2021).
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Prepared for Environmental Change (PFEC) GRANTS
Deep Ecology 2019-2022
Grant Project “Deep Ecology” in the Time of Climate Change,” makes new connections between art and science through what I see as an unfolding of connections between science, bio-art and fungi. Bio-art engages in the making of art in conjunction with art and science to intervene in and re-imagine a
current topic of massive public interest: the topic of ecology as in climate change.
Hoosier Lifelines 2019-2022: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020. The installation will consist of artifacts, photography, and video media. (March 2021) This is a collaborative project initiated by Environmental Historian Lizzie Browning, Eric Sandweiss, Maria Whiteman and Betsy Stirratt.
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INVITED TALKS
Invited Talk Oct 2020: by Professor Suzanne Anker at NYU BioArt, on “Living with Mycelia”
Invited Talk Feb 2021: by Distinguished Professor Gaby Schwab at UC-Irvine, On “Trans-species”
Invited Speaker March 2021: Distinguished Professor Dr. Bruce Clarke: “Forests” Series of Lectures and Talks. March 2021
March 5 & 6, 2020 Invited Speaker for “Experimental Environments,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. to explore the notion of “experiment” as a mode in humanities knowledge production (particularly environmental humanities), building on the observation that many EHum programs in U.S. universities have adopted language and discourse about “experiment,” “laboratory,” “observation,” etc. This symposium, is to think critically and creatively about the politics of experimental environmental science, and the contributions that humanistic work can make toward understanding labs and experiments as sites of environmental knowledge production. https://publish.illinois.edu/ehsymposium2020/
2019 “Art and Science in the time of Climate Change” Invited talk with scientist PhD Katie Beidler Mycologist. Bloomington High School South, Invited by Scientist PhD Kirstin Milks to talk to young artists and scientists about “Ecology and Art.”
Feb 2020 Invited Talk Professor Jonathon Racek. School of Architecture and Design. “Mycelium as Art” The purpose of the discussion: to encourage using and building with biodegradable material. Architects and Designers are turning to ecofriendly alternatives for material to replace petroleum-based products.
Conferences: 2019 University California, Irvine. The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts SLSA paper presentation “Solastalgia” Mourning the future while living in the present. Tran-species and Interconnectivity with humans, environment and ecology. Presented a paper with Professor Gaby Schwab on Trans-species Imaginaries.
2019 April Invited talk and lead seminars of Eco-Art at Georgia Institute of Technology: School of Literature, Communication, and Culture with an overall focus on global climate change and environmental degradation. Some of the writers and artists include Anna Tsing and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (anthropologists), Donna Haraway, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour (philosophers), Cormac McCarthy (novelist), and Maria Whiteman (visual artist). Spoke with students about climate change and art. Led a workshop on fungi and making shapes, paper and faces.
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EXHIBITIONS
The installation will consist of artifacts, photography, and video media. ( 2021 -2022)
Show dates: Curated by Director Betsy Stirratt
Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington: Feb 2021 - April 22, 2021
Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City: Fall 2021
Carnegie Center for Art and History, New Albany: 2022
2020 “State of Nature: Picturing Indiana’s Biodiversity” Indiana University (traveling exhibition) Curated by Betsy Stirratt, Director of Grunwald Gallery of Art. Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design (Photography, Video, BioArt Installation).
2020 “MicroFungi & Cosmology” WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology, Bloomington, IN
2019-2020 Remembering and Forgetting Exhibition Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University. This work looks at the landscape in Alberta through traces of memory and touch. The purpose of this installation was to link a geological history to the Anthropocene between glaciers and the movement of animals.
2019 Experimental Engagement, “Mycelium Cosmology” and “Strange Strangers” Exhibition UC Irvine, Calif.
2019 -2020 IU Bicentennia, Evansville Museum of Arts, Science and History Museum of Arts, Exhibition as part of the 125th celebration of the School. Multichannel video “Strange Strangers”
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2019 August Summer Environmental Humanities Summer Institute at Colby College, Waterville, Maine Stephanie LeMenager Lecture: The Futures of the Public Lands: Case Study, Oregon. Seminar: Rethinking the Commons: Climate, Posthumanism, Decolonization. Amanda Boetzkes, Lecture: Climate Aesthetics at the Moraine. Seminar: The Ecological Postures of Contemporary Art. Colby will host its inaugural Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities in August, 2019 at the new Bill and Joan Alfond Main Street Commons in downtown Waterville, Maine. The aim of this Mellon Foundation funded institute is to engage with contemporary issues in the environmental humanities through participatory, interdisciplinary events, including seminars and workshops. It will provide the occasion to collectively explore how this developing field contributes to the theorization, imagination, and practice of socially just and ecologically hopeful futures for humans and nonhumans in a global collective yet to be cooperatively defined.
2019 November “Fungi for the People” Workshop and Seminar, Oregon. The main instructor is Ja Schindler, the director of Fungi For The People. He has been a mushroom cultivator and student of fungi for over 15 years, in both research and production scales, and has facilitated hands-on mushroom workshops to over 3,000 individuals since 2009 as an act of social and environmental activism. Ja brings together progressive cultivation methods, environmental research, rich cultivation history, a vast knowledge of fungal ecology, and creative approaches to connecting with diverse peoples into an engaging learning experience. Laboratory set-up and Skills, Low tech and High Tech methods, Mushroom Mycelium (spawn) Growing, Growing Mushrooms in the Greenhouse, Mushroom Gardening, Medicinal Mushrooms and Use, Mushroom Farm Development, Growing Mushrooms on Organic Wastes, MycoRemediation, MycoPermaculture
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2018
NYU, New York City, NY Two Interviews “Post-Human and Environmental Changes” & “Air: The Elements and Wildlife” with Professor Francesca Ferrando, Dec 2018
“Touching Polar Bears,” Howe, Cymene and Pandian, Anand. "Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen." Punctum Books Nov 2019, Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, June 2017 online website 2018. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1154-death
NY Post human Summits @ NYU Speaker "Wildlife and Oil" (Winter Summit 2018)
Group Exhibition: “Out of Mind” Mycelia, “Mind and Matter” Curated by Belinda Kwan @OCAD Open Space Gallery, Toronto, ON (Nov 2018)
2018 Panel "Environment, Animals and Trauma" The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) “Wildlife and Oil” Toronto, ON - Nov 15-18th, 2018.
Invited Interview: WFUI PUBLIC Radio, Arts & Podcasts - Radio and Television Services, Bloomington, IN
Invited Podcast: Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer, Anthropology, Rice University,
By Joe Carson, Rice University Energy and Cultural Podcast with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer
My choice this year for my favorite podcast is perhaps a bit biased—I had the opportunity to take part in the Rice Seminar “After Biopolitics” with Maria Whiteman in 2015. Since then, I’ve followed her various artistic endeavors, which I encourage all of you to do as well. As Dominic and Cymene point out early in the recording, it is a challenge to discuss Whiteman’s visual and tactical artwork through the aural format of a podcast so supplement your listening experience with her website! While Whiteman discusses several of her installations, I was drawn to the common theme of touch. From her installations such as, “Anthropocene: Traces of Another Time in Landscape Photographs and Visual” (where Whiteman focused on a particular rock where bison had rubbed against it centuries ago as a point to emphasize changes in landscapes and environments) to her piece, “Mycelia” 2018-2022 (which shows fungi growing on the back of a human body), Whiteman’s visual representations of the Anthropocene push us to recognize how we come into close contact and proximity with things beyond ourselves—beyond the human, beyond our current moment in time and beyond our comfort. As Whiteman comments, she is drawn to reach out and grasp the things we might not; the things that would give us pause do not phase her. From these moments, she is able to beautifully capture these tactical encounters and recreate them through poignant and powerful images. Her narrations on this podcast provide an interesting and illuminating backstory to the well theorized and curated images on her website.
Invited talk: School of Art, Architecture and Design, IU, Bloomington, IN. MFA seminar Series on Environmental Issues. 2018
Invited talk: Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana Universiy, Bloomington, IN 2018
Research Scholar, Artistic Social Practice (Assistant Research Scientist) Environmental Resilience Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington (August 2018-present)
The incoming Second Vice-President (serving from fall 2018 to fall 2020 and later as First Vice-President. Art Liaison 2018 (SLSA) The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
2017
"Out of Time," Exhibition "Stardust Series" Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Nov-Dec, 2017
“Touching Polar Bears,” Howe, Cymene and Pandian, Anand. "Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen." Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website, June 2017. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1154-death
Invited Talk “Anthropocene: Traces of Another time in the Landscape (Stones and Bison),” Invited By Professor Hugh Crawford. Georgia Institute of Technology (2017). Exhibition at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 2017 (forthcoming)
Invited Talks “Practicing Art in the Contemporary Moment,” Invited by Lynn Turner, Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture. Goldsmith Academy, London, UK Summer 2017
November 2017, Chaired Roundtable w/ Allan Stoekl, Kalpana Seshadri, Jeff Nealon and Panel w/ Hugh Crawford and Brad Necyk. "Out of Time," for Society for Literature, Science and Art (SLSA) 2017, Arizona, Tempe.
2016
Nov - Dec, 2016, Banff Artist in Residence (BAIR) Extended at Banff Centre, Banff Alberta -- Visual and Digital Arts. Artist in Residence.
Wildlife and Oil: In the Air,” Maria Whiteman, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Vol. 36 ( June 2016)http://www.antennae.org.uk/home/4587620582
1. Book Cover "Landscapes of Sovereignty". Fort McMurray, Alberta. Canada: Book Melville's Philosophies. By Branka Arsic and K.L. Evans (forthcoming).
2. Book Cover "Elemental Ecologies." Book Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. By Astrida Neimanis (forthcoming).
April and May, 2016, Banff Artist in Residence (BAIR) Extended at Banff Centre, Banff Alberta -- Visual and Digital Arts. Artist in Residence.
March 2016, Thinking of Climate Change through concepts of Ecology of the Senses + Heat-SLOW-NESS creating livable environments at the Lab for Criticism and Technics (LCT) https://artsmediaengineering.asu.edu/files/adam-nocek Artist in Residence, School of Arts, Media + Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az
March of 2016, "I loved you right up to the end, I'm especially slow today" and "Touching" will be exhibited in the Urban Video Project “Between Species,” Curated by Anneka Herre at Syracuse University, New York http://www.urbanvideoproject.com/artists/screening-panel-talk-between-species-2/ (Invited by Dr. Gregg Lambert Director of CNY Humanities Corridor | Humanities Centre).
March - May 2016, Museum of Walking (MoW), Solo Exhibition "Temporal Changes in the Landscape"" (Video and Photography Installation) Curated by Angela Ellsworth. Artist talk at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona. http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=9f56b50de528ef467ec5e40bd&id=72030afe63&e=424215382c
February 2016, Princeton Environmental Institute, Videos and Photographs of "Polar Bear," Video "IntheAir" and Video "Pine Beetle," Butler College Studio 34, Curated by Eben Kirksey, Princeton University, NJ. and "Visitor" New Space Gallery. Brooklyn, NY, (March-April 2016). http://www.princeton.edu/pei/events/multispecies-salon/
"In the Air" I will be presenting this work for the Anthropology Department at Rice University. Quotes by Luce Irigaray. Screening at Butler College Studio 34, Curated by Eben Kirksey, Princeton University, NJ. and "Visitor" Brooklyn Gallery, NY, (March-April 2016).
November 2015, Co-organized The Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA) 2015, Curated Exhibition "After Bio-politics in Contemporary Art" with Guest Artist Mark Dion. http://litsciarts.org/slsa15