archives

Uriel Orlow, Inside the Archive, 2000

Inside The Archive

145 images  as video slide show or photographic installation, 2000-2006 Inside the Archive takes us through the interior of a small archive and library, foregrounding its material conditions, and focusing on different spaces which are devoted to archival tasks and … More

Uriel Orlow, The Wiener Library, 2000

The Wiener Library (London)

video with sound, 90 mins looped, 2000-2 The Wiener Library (London) shows the exterior of the Wiener Library building in a London street. Scrolling over this everyday image is the alphabetical list of thesaurus terms which allow the collection to … More

Orlow&Maclennan-Satellite Contact, 2005

Satellite Contact

Satellite Contact never touches the ground: it takes the viewer on an hour-long roller-coaster ride through the guts of one of the most extensive national archives in the world

Uriel Orlow, Urban Inventory, 2005

Urban Inventory

Urban Inventory, #1-4 consists of a series of 4 billboard posters which create an urban inventory by reading the city and collecting its visible and invisible signs.

re the archive

Re: the archive, the image, and the very dead sheep

Bookwork by Uriel Orlow and Ruth Maclennan, 160 pp. Design by Kapitza. London: Double agents, 2004 ISBN: 0-9548947-0-7 A ‘ready-made archive’, a holiday correspondence and a philosophico-anecdotal meditation on history. Ruth Maclennan and Uriel Orlow write to each other while … More

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