Contribution – Uriel Orlow

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Arts and Extractivism in the Global Present | Ed. Liliana Goméz, Alexander Brust | 2025

Contribution of Learning From Artemisia and a discussion Learning From Artemisia: A Conversation Between Uriel Orlow, Liliana Gómez, and Alexander Brust, to [Título do livro], edited by Liliana Gómez and Alexander Brust, 2026.

Through the lens of contemporary art, this book focuses on social ecologies and those spaces that are characterized, on the one hand, by a high degree of biodiversity and, on the other, by a long history of the extraction of resources, (neo)colonial relationships, and extractivism.

Contributors discuss the importance of ignored knowledge practices and systems as well as alternative designs of the world that reach beyond simply thinking about progress. Chapters posit that contemporary art and ethnographic objects reflect extractive practices and the potential for regeneration in very different ways. In dialogue with one another, both art and the ethnographic object reveal alternative perspectives of agency, critical historiographies, and possible forms of living together in a new way. Foregrounding emerging environmental aesthetics, the book also critically engages the historical documents and artifacts collected by museums that bear witness today to knowledge gaps and the politics of resource transfer.

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UMBIGO #95 | March 2026

Contribution of a visual essay by Uriel Orlow for issue 95 of Umbigo magazine.

The theme Borders inaugurates Umbigo‘s 2026 editorial plan. Co-curated with Luis Prados Covarrubias and Claudio Hontana Muñoz from the Cultural Section of the Spanish Embassy in Portugal, issue #95 explores the abstract idea of borders. It examines porosities, contaminations, good neighbour practices, and transgressions that are historically and culturally embedded in transition and administrative zones.

Available here.

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The Taste of Future Landscapes | Ed. Lisa Mazza and Simone Mair, BAU | Dent-de-Leone | 2025

Edible Forest text by Uriel Orlow, to The Taste of Future Landscapes, edited by Lisa Mazza and Simone Mair, BAU- Institute for Contemporary Art and Ecology.

Read Uriel’s contribution here.

For BAU’s 10th anniversary, they have published The Taste of Future Landscapes, designed by Åbäke and published by Dent-de-Leone, London.
The book brings together the voices of artists, scientists, farmers, and bakers from the BAU community. Through the lens of cooking, food, and conviviality, these voices weave together reflections on vital themes: community, landscape, ecology, and climate change.

More information here.

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MONOPOL | February 2025

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Eco-Operations | ED. Liliana Gómez, Fabienne Liptay | 2024

Contribution of Reading Wood (Backwards) and a discussion On Eco-operations and Decoloniality: A Discussion with Uriel Orlow, Dalida María Benfield, T.J. Demos, Fabienne Liptay, Lukas Brasiskis, to Eco-Operations, edited by Liliana Gómez and Fabienne Liptay, 2024.

The climate change crisis has become part of aesthetic discourse and critical research in culture and the arts. Future-oriented, ecologically conceived possibilities for action are being explored by artists, curators, and scholars alike. Eco-operations addresses these emerging aesthetic ecologies and new technologies of cooperation that both challenge and shape a sustainable future, foregrounding interruptions, ruptures, disconnections, dissonances, exclusions, and allochronism. Moving beyond the concepts of “flow” and “network” as a single, coherent (ecological or technological) system, Eco-operations instead emphasizes the frictions within asynchronously running systems. The infrastructures and formats of artistic production and exhibition play a central role here, as they themselves constitute ecosystems that invite and regulate processes of sharing and exchange. Artists and activists are embedded in these ecosystems, in which they simultaneously intervene when searching for alternative ways of creating collaborative practice. Bringing together scholars, artists, writers, and curators, and working across a range of disciplines, Eco-operations explores this field of tension between global and local ecologies, and aims to speculate on where dissonances imply both creative potential and political challenges.

With contributions by Dalida María Benfield, Ursula Biemann, Lisa Blackmore, T. J. Demos, Laura Flórez & Lorena García Cely, Sandra Frimmel, Alexandra Gelis, Liliana Gómez, Fabienne Liptay, Ana María Lozano, Uriel Orlow, Dorota Sajewska.

PDF for the full contribution here.

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Film Undone | Ed. Philip Widmann | October 2024

Unmade Film, Perfomative Film, Future Film: An Ethics of Witnessing, Essay by Uriel Orlow, to Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema, edited by Philip Widmann.

Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time. These tentative and careful probes dedicated to singular projects reflect the importance of primary materials before and beyond the film. Bringing them together as Elements of a Latent Cinema opens a space to consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments in relation. Latency prompts to think differently about what has remained invisible in cinema than under deficit-centred categories such as failure, loss, or incompletion. It marks a sustained potentiality for things to change their condition, to affect us and set us in motion.

More information at Archive Books

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Memories Archived | Ed. Dale Luis Menezes, Leandré D’Souza, Susana Bastos Mateus| 2024

Memories, Archived: Contemporary Views from South Asia is a book that explores contemporary South Asian views and provides new ways to engage with archives.

The book includes an interview with Uriel Orlow as well as other artists, including Asavari Gurav, Ashish Phaldesai, Keg de Souza, Leticia Alvares and many others.

Available here.

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Balance 1970-1990. Kunst, Gesellschaft, Umwelt | Marianne Burki, Katrin Steffen | Kunstmuseum Solothurn | 2022

Carte blanche to Uriel Orlow: featuring still images from Dedication (2021).

in Balance 1970-1990. Kunst, Gesellschaft, Umwelt by Marianne Burki, Katrin Steffen (eds.), published by the Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland, May 2022.

External link

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Mobile Soils | Anne-Laure Franchette, Jose Cáceres Mardones, Gabriel N. Gee (eds.)

TETI Press first publication

This collection of essays reflects on the mobile ground beneath our feet, questioning the soil as both material and narrative in our interconnected territories. Texts by artists, curators, historians, engineers, environmental scientists, architects, gardeners and poets peer into the bright and dark worlds of the underground, look at memories, molecules and resilience on the ground, industry, migration and spectral presences on the overground. Throughout, authors revisit their own practice confronted to present earthly attachments and ecological pressure. It stems from a series of workshops organised in 2019 as part of the Baustelle und Botanic project.

Edited by Anne-Laure Franchette, Jose Caceres Mardones, Gabriel N.Gee

With contributions by Paloma Ayala, Kenza Benabderrazik, Jose Caceres Mardones, Laurie Dall’Ava, Nikos Doulos, Errol Reuben Fernandes, Anne-Laure Franchette, Gabriel N.Gee, Brack Hale / Moriah Simonds, Monica Ursina Jäger, Elise Lammer, Gnanli Landrou, Maria Joao Matos, Uriel Orlow, Jan Van Oordt, Grit Ruhland, Caroline Wiedmer & Rafael Newman, Huhtamaki Wab.

Pdf of Of Soil and Weeds by Uriel Orlow

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The Galápagos Principle

With contributions by Pierre Bal-Blanc, Marc Bembekoff, Julien Fronsacq, Simon Pleasance, Aurélien Mole, Ilya Prigogine, Simon Boudvin, Jean Painlevé, René Daumal, Laurent Montaron, Christian Waldvogel, Alain Bedos & Christian Moncel, Superstudio, Arnaud des Palliéres, Ceel Mogami de Haas & Vianney Fivel, Simon Faithfull, Joseph Grigely, and Sealand.

A project by Maxime Bondu, Gaël Grivet, Bénédicte le Pimpec, Èmile Ouroumov.