The Plant Initiative
Building a movement to increase respect for plants
Free online event! A conversation with Uriel Orlow
Conversing with Leaves: plants, politics and more-than-human witnessing
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
12:00 - 1:00 pm Central US Time
Join us for this free online conversation with artist Uriel Orlow about plants and their role and power in human history.
How can plants become witnesses and powerful agents in human history?
Join artist Uriel Orlow in a conversation about plants with moderator Giovanni Aloi, board member of The Plant Initiative.
Orlow's work 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.
There will be time for questions from the audience following the discussion. This free program will be livestreamed with a link to be sent to participants before the event and will also be recorded and available for viewing online afterwards.
About Uriel Orlow
Uriel Orlow is a Swiss-born artist with a diasporic background who lives between Lisbon, London and Zurich. His work has been presented at major international survey exhibitions and shown widely in museums, galleries, film festivals and exhibitions worldwide. Recent publications include Conversing with Leaves, Soil Affinities, and Theatrum Botanicum. He teaches at University of the Arts, Zurich, at University of Westminster, London, at Maumaus, Lisbon.
Uriel Orlow’s practice is research-based, process-oriented and often in dialogue with other disciplines. Projects engage with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, social and ecological justice, blind spots of representation and plants as political actors.
Learn more about Uriel Orlow and his work on his web site.
April 2024 Monthly e-mail newsletter
Each month, The Plant Initiative sends out an e-mail newsletter to provide timely information and resources about improving the plant-human connection as well as to keep you up to date on our work.
Here's the link to the April 2024 e-newsletter which was sent on April 15, 2024.
To subscribe to the e-newsletter, just visit our home page and enter your e-mail address on the form on that page. If you have a suggestion for a resource, event, or other item that may be of interest to subscribers, please consider sharing it with us at info@plantinitiative.org.
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The Plant Initiative Podcast - New Episode
The Plant Initiative is posting podcast episodes on our YouTube channel.
Our fourth episode, recorded on March 29, 2024, features a wonderful conversation with Grant Wilson, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center and Plant Initiative board member Sue Fager about the Rights of Nature.
New online plant networking site!
Join the new Plant Networking site on Hylo!
This new free Hylo networking tool is a special interactive web site set up for those interested in the human-plant connection supported by The Plant Initiative and Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene. It's a space for sharing active research, collaborations, art, and any forms of humans and plant relations. Use this page to collaborate, share, and to connect with others interested in thoughtful ways of relating to plants.
Visitors to The Plant Initiative's web site are especially invited to join this online community!
