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Titre(s) : Uriel Orlow [Texte imprimé] : theatrum botanicum / edited by Shela Sheikh and Uriel Orlow
Publication : Berlin : Sternberg press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 371 pages : ill. ; 29 cm
Note(s) : "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. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370)
"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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Sheikh, Shela. Éditeur scientifique
Orlow, Uriel (1973-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Theatrum botanicum
Sujet(s) : Orlow, Uriel (1973-....) -- Expositions
Botanique -- Dans l'art
Plantes -- Dans l'art
Indice(s) Dewey :
709.040 74074 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - 1900-1999 - Happenings, créations d'événements,
manifestations - Musées, collections, expositions
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783956794155. - ISBN 395679415X
EAN 9783956794155
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45768271m
Notice n° :
FRBNF45768271
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
