Conversing with leaves and listening to ghosts
Uriel Orlow will present some of his recent projects which look at human-plant entanglements, with plants as active agents in history and politics. Trying to find new forms of representation Orlow’s practice engages with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, social and ecological justice, latent archives and more-than-human witnessing. His multi-media installations, lecture performances or gardens focus on specific locations, micro-histories and forms of haunting and bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence.
The event will be held in English and the number of participants will be limited to the conference room.
Organization: Gustavo Vicente, Maíra Santos & Paula Caspão (Centre for Theatre Studies – University of Lisbon)
Date: 27th March 2023, 14h00 – 15h30
Venue: Espaço Alkantara (Calçada Marquês de Abrantes, 99)
Uriel Orlow is an artist and researcher with a diasporic background working in Lisbon, London, Zurich and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the 2023 Swiss Grand Prix for Art/Prix Meret Oppenheim. Orlow’s work has been presented in numerous international survey exhibitions, including the 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 and 12 in Genk and Palermo, and biennials in Berlin, Dakar, Kochi, Taipei, Sharjah, Moscow, Kathmandu, Guatemala and others. His work has also been shown in London at the Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, Showroom, Gasworks and ICA; in Lisbon at Maat, Casa da Cerca, Carpintarias de São Lazaro and Galeria Quadrum as well as in Zurich, Geneva, Athens, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Marseille, Paris, Oslo, Dublin Turin, Cairo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Beijing, New York, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne, Lubumbashi and elsewhere. Recent publications include Conversing with Leaves (Archive Books, 2020), Soil Affinities (Shelter Press, 2019) and Theatrum Botanicum (Sternberg Press, 2018). He is a lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and at the University of Westminster, London.
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