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Spore Hosts: URIEL ORLOW: THEATRUM BOTANICUM
Film screening and discussion
21. July 2024
20.00-21.30
20.00-21.30
Save the Date
For free
all ages welcome
in English
Uriel Orlow's Theatrum Botanicum is an ongoing research project that considers the botanical world as a political stage––through film, photography, installation and sound. Starting from the dual vantage points of South Africa and Europe, the project considers plants as both witnesses and dynamic agents of history, connecting nature and people, rural and cosmopolitan medicine, tradition, and modernity––across different geographies, histories and knowledge systems, with a variety of healing, spiritual and economic powers.
We will screen three single-channel films from the complete works of Theatrum Botanicum, exploring botanical nationalism and other legacies of colonialism, the migration and invasion of plants, biopiracy, and the role of plant classification and naming: The Crown Against Mafavuke (18', 2026), Imbizo Ka Mafavuke/Mafavuke's Tribunal (28', 2017) and Muthi (17', 2017).
The screening is followed by a conversation between Uriel Orlow and curator Isabel Raabe.
The screening is part of the exhibition Ré-imaginer le passé, curated by Mahret Kupka, Isabel Raabe, Malick Ndiaye and Ibou C. Diop, which can be seen until July 28 at the KINDL - Center for Contemporary Art. The group exhibition developed in Dakar creates spaces for alternative forms of knowledge and knowledge transfer. In the exhibition, Orlow shows his work Soil Affinities, in which he examines the historical and current connections between Senegal and France through the lens of agriculture.
The public program of the exhibition is curated by Isabel Raabe & Celina Baljeet Basra.
Film Still aus Imbizo Ka Mafavuke/Mafavuke's Tribunal (28', 2017)
