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Uriel Orlow : theatrum botanicum

Title

Uriel Orlow : theatrum botanicum / edited by Shela Sheikh and Uriel Orlow.

Author

Orlow, Uriel

Publication

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description

371 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

"This publication emerges from Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum (2015-18), a multi-faceted project encompassing film, sound, photography, and installation, which looks to the botanical world as a stage for politics. Working from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses to, and dynamic agents in, history. It links nature and humans, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition and modernity across different geographies, histories, and systems of knowledge--exploring the variety of curative, spiritual, and economic powers of plants. The project addresses 'botanical nationalism' and 'flower diplomacy' during apartheid; plant migration; the role and legacies of the imperial classification and naming of plants; bioprospecting and biopiracy; and the garden planted by Nelson Mandela and his fellow inmates at Robben Island prison. This publication is made up of two intertwining books: one documents the works of Theatrum Botanicum, including the scripts for two films; the second is a compendium of brief, commissioned essays that aims to offer an accessible snapshot of the complex and multifaceted issues that inform and are raised by the artworks. The independent but interrelated essays, which either speak directly to the artworks or follow lines of inquiry alongside them, cover perspectives from postcolonial cultural studies; art criticism and art history; natural history, botany (including ethnobotany and economic botany), and conservation; jurisprudence and critical legal studies; and critical race studies"--Publisher's website.

Alternative Title

Theatrum botanicum

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"This book is published to mark the completion of Uriel Orlow's body of work Theatrum botanicum and its exhibition at: The Showroom, Corner College, Parc Saint Léger--Centre d'art contemporain, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Pav Parco Arte Vivente"--Colophon.
Contributions by Sita Balani, Melanie Boehi, Clelia Coussonet, Karen Flint, Jason T.W. Irving, Nomusa Makhubu, Bettina Malcomess, Karin van Marle, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The crown against Mafavuke -- The memory of trees -- Echoes -- Grey, green, gold -- Muthi (portraits) -- Muthi (film) -- Botanical dreams -- Imbizo Ka Mafavuke -- Geraniums are never red -- The fairest heritage.

Call Number

Sc F 18-75

ISBN

9783956794155
395679415X

LCCN

9783956794155

OCLC

1049983970

Author

Orlow, Uriel, author, editor.

Title

Uriel Orlow : theatrum botanicum / edited by Shela Sheikh and Uriel Orlow.

Publisher

Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Added Author

Sheikh, Shela, editor.

Showroom (Gallery)

Corner College (Zurich, Switzerland)

Parc Saint Léger--Centre d'art contemporain.

Kunsthalle St. Gallen.

Parco Arte Vivente (Turin, Italy)

Other Standard Identifier

9783956794155

Research Call Number

Sc F 18-75

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