more-than-human Arkansas
Project Description
August 20th to October 9th, 2026
Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, Arkansas. USA.
The exhibition more-than-human is a group show of media artworks at the intersection of art, science, Indigenous world views and technology. The works in the show speculatively and poetically use multimodal storytelling as a vehicle for interpreting, mattering, and embodying more-than-human ecologies, with the goal of critically and emotionally engaging with the important work of de-centering the human, even while the viewer is that human. Many of the works use technological and scientific tools as the entry point for witnessing and interacting with these more-than-human worlds, as they help visualize phenomena beyond human sensory perception while nevertheless situating us within them. Together the works in the show offer embodied and felt perspectives that interweave scientific and Indigenous perspectives, opening the wild possibility of a discovery being a remembering.
The presented artworks span a number of disciplines and world views and together will ask the following questions: What does it mean to be alive and have agency?, How can we re-train ourselves to slow down and listen to voices that have been marginalized for millennia?, What does it mean to be in dialogue with something that does not share the same language nor temporal reality?, Once we acknowledge the intelligence and ‘aliveness’ of something, what are the ethical implications of that recognition?, and How can we do better? What new mental models can we adopt to help guide how we engage with the world around us? This exhibition is geared towards listening and learning from these voices and finding ways to intersect with the public with the intention of rethinking and resituating our relationship with the natural world.
The exhibition features the works of eight international artists/artist groups. Participating artists include:
Ursula Biemann, Mary Bunch & Dolleen Tissawii’Ashii Manning, Marko Cindric, Lindsey French, Susan Morrissette, François Quévillon, Rasa Smites & Raitis Smit, and Jane Tingley with Hrysovalanti Maharas and Ilze (Kavi) Briede.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Special Thanks:
Julia Wintner for getting excited about and supporting this show. Without you, this show would not have become what it is.
Thank you to Audrey Elk for her amazing ability to understand the vision for this show and install it with precision and accuracy.
Much appreciation to Paden for his unwavering support, attention to detail and patience despite all of the trials of life. Thank you to Juan and Aaron for their hard work.
Deep gratitude to all of the participating artists for making this project complete.