Traces: Stories of Migration
Editeur:
University of the Arts London
Date:
2023
Type:
Softcover, 80 pages, full colour illustrations throughout, 15,7 x 21 cm
ISBN:
978-1-906908-84-3
Langage:
English
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Traces: Stories of Migration" (London). Visualising the migrant history of east London communities, through a new body of work by Lucy Orta, 'Portrait Gallery'.
The Lost Species Handbook - from the everyday to the extraordinary
Editeur:
University of the Arts London
Date:
2021
Type:
Softcover, 40 pages, full colour illustrations throughout, 17 x 23,5cm
ISBN:
978-1-906908-71-3
Langage:
English
Illustrated by Lucy Orta with texts by historian Sophie Page, the handbook describes the social and symbolic bonds humans and animals once shared and reveals how humans have contributed to the decline of Britain’s wildlife since the Middle Ages.
The Lost Species Mask Kit
Editeur:
University of the Arts London
Date:
2021
Type:
A4 Folder containing 2 fold-out pattern templates 60 x 85cm each
ISBN:
978-1-906908-72-0
Langage:
English
The Lost Species Mask Kit contains pattern templates of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects that were once abundant in Britain, alongside a selection of animals that were important in medieval lives and culture.
Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food in the Public Sphere
Editeur:
Black Dog Publishing Limited, London
Date:
2016
Type:
Hard cover, 238 pages, full colour throughout, 23.5 x 29cm
ISBN:
978 1910 433 805
Langage:
English
This book brings together the artists’ body of work, conducted over a 20-year period that draws people into a reflective experience of art, through objects and processes that combine the aesthetics of producing, cooking, and eating food.
Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food / Water / Life
Editeur:
Actes Sud, Arles and Parc de la Villette, Paris
Date:
2014
Type:
Soft cover, 130 pages, full colour throughout, 17 x 24cm
ISBN:
978-2-330-03197-8
Langage:
French
The universal topics -Food Water Life- are explored through the artworks by Lucy + Jorge Orta along with the processes the artists’ deploy to mobilise communities around the world to become creative agents for awareness and change.
70 x 7 The Meal XXIV
Editeur:
Mural Arts Program Philadelphia
Date:
2013
Type:
Soft cover, 48 pages, full colour throughout, 23 x 15cm
ISBN:
978-0-9903870-0-8
Langage:
English
A summary of the engagement processes and outcomes of the staging of 70x7 The Meal, for 900 people in the city of Philadelphia. The Meal reinforces notions of how public art has vast potential for bringing awareness of need for social change.
Potential Architecture: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Damiani, Bologna
Date:
2013
Type:
Paperback 224 pages full colour throughout, 16,5 x 23,5cm
ISBN:
9788862082907
Langage:
English
The artists fascination with cell biology and the process of differentiation is explored through drawing, glass blowing and model making. The resulting sculptures becomes new spaces for habitation.
Food Water Life: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Princeton Architectural Press, New York
Date:
2012
Type:
Hard Cover, 192 pages, full colour plates, 22 x 26cm
ISBN:
978-1-56898-991-4
Langage:
English
The universal topics -Food Water Life- are explored through the work of Lucy + Jorge Orta along with the processes the artists’ deploy to mobilise communities around the world to become creative agents for awareness and change.
Lucy + Jorge Orta: Fabulae Romanae
Editeur:
Marsilio Editore, Venice
Date:
2012
Type:
Monograph. Soft cover 120 pages, full colour illustrated, 22 x 28cm /
ISBN:
978-88-317-1338
Langage:
English
Fabulae Romanae takes the reader on a symbolic journey across the city of Rome through a series of performances played out by ‘spirits’, who trace a fantastical other-wordly map of the city.
Aware: Art Fashion Identity
Editeur:
Damiani editore, Bologna
Date:
2011
Type:
Soft cover, 245 pages, full colour throughout, 23.5 x 15,5cm
ISBN:
9 788862 081627
Langage:
English
Published to coincide with the exhibition co-curated by Lucy Orta and Gabi Scardi at the Royal Academy of the Arts, this publication explores the social and political role of clothing at the heart of the practice of a selection of contemporary artists.
Clouds | Nuages: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Damiani, Bologna
Date:
2011
Type:
Paperback 224 pages full colour throughout, 16,5 x 23,5cm
ISBN:
10: 8862082169 / 13: 978-8862082167
Langage:
English / French
Clouds describes the collaborative process of modelling waste plastic bottles with students from the School of Architecture in Versailles (énsa-v) and was published to coincide with the exhibition of the resulting sculptures at La Maréchalerie gallery.
Light Works: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Black Dog Publishing, London
Date:
2010
Type:
Hard cover, 239 pages, full colour plates, 23.5 x 28.5 cm
ISBN:
978-1-907317-04-0
Langage:
English
A survey of the artists’ breath-taking ephemeral light projections throughout the 1990’s. Landscapes, monuments and heritage sites become the grandiose stages onto which symbols and pictograms of their imaginary planetary alphabet are projected.
Mapping the Invisible: EU-Roma Gypsies
Editeur:
Black Dog Publishing, London
Date:
2010
Type:
Paperback book edited by Lucy Orta. 192 pages 153 b/w and colour ills, 21 x 29 cm
ISBN:
13: 978 1 906155 91 9
Langage:
English
Edited by Lucy Orta, Mapping the Invisible documents and concludes a three-year study conducted by a group of architects, designers and artists with Roma communities in Greece, Romania, Italy and the UK.
Lucy + Jorge Orta: Pattern Book, an introduction to collaborative practices
Editeur:
Black Dog Publishing, London
Date:
2009
Type:
Monograph. Soft cover, 160 pages, 21 x 29,5cm, full colour throughout
ISBN:
10: 1 904772 75 7 & 13: 978 1 904772 75 0
Langage:
English
Pattern Book identifies different approaches to collaborative making and co-creation, through a series of the projects initiated by Lucy + Jorge Orta spanning twenty-years of their practice.
Antarctica: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Electa Mondadori, Italy
Date:
2008
Type:
Hard Cover, 174 pages, full colour plates, 22 x 27cm
ISBN:
978-88-370-6087-9
Langage:
English and Italian
Both a site for the artists’ emblematic ephemeral artwork Antarctic Village and a metaphor for their practice, the Antarctica project addresses issues relating to the environment, politics, autonomy, habitat, mobility and relationships among peoples.
Collective Space: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
IXIA / ARTicle Press*, New Thinking in Public Art, UK
Date:
2006
Type:
Soft cover, 96 pages, colour illustrations, 15 x 21cm
ISBN:
187-33-5234-4
Langage:
English
The artists explain the concept and methods they employ to imagine and stage the participatory pubic work 7 x 7 The Meal, using the streets of London as a test ground for an open-air meal gathering 5,000 guests.
Drink Water! Lucy + Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Gli Ori, Italy
Date:
2005
Type:
Soft cover, 160 pages, black and white, 15 x 21,5 cm
ISBN:
887-33-6169-2
Langage:
English and Italian
The catalogue for the artists solo exhibition at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (2005) takes the form of an artists' sketchbook of ideas for playful sculpture that can purify and distribute clean water.
Body Architecture: Lucy Orta
Editeur:
Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich
Date:
2003
Type:
Monograph. Soft Cover, 144 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 20 x 26 cm
ISBN:
388-96-0066-2
Langage:
English
Body Architecture explores Lucy Orta's historic works, Refuge Wear, Nexus Architecture and Connector Body Architecture, to reveal ways in which the perceptions of space plays a crucial role in the construction of personal and collective identity.
Lucy Orta: contemporary artist series
Editeur:
Phaidon Press, UK
Date:
2003
Type:
Soft cover, 160 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 25 x 29 cm
ISBN:
10: 0714843008 / 13: 9780714843001
Langage:
English
On overview of Lucy Orta's sculptural, performative and socially engaged work during the 1990’s that examines the social bonds within communities and the relationships between individuals and their environments.
Process of Transformation: Lucy Orta
Editeur:
Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris
Date:
1999
Type:
Monograph. Soft cover 160 pages, colour illustrations, 17 x 24 cm
ISBN:
9 782858 934027
Langage:
French and English
The staging of a social bond is the common denominator linking Lucy Orta's different works and Process of Transformation examines her interest in operational aesthetics as a form of community empowerment.
Incandescence, crónica de 100 fuegos: Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris
Date:
1998
Type:
Soft cover, 160 pages, colour illustrations, 17 x 24cm
ISBN:
9 782858 934041
Langage:
French, English and Spanish
Catalogue for the exhibition curated by Catherine Petitgas at the Alma Gallery London (1997), which presents the earth paintings resulting from Jorge Orta's ephemermal Light Works.
Transparence, the hidden face of light: Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris
Date:
1997
Type:
Soft cover, 144 pages, colour illustrations, 17 x 24cm
ISBN:
2 85893 290 5
Langage:
French and Englsh
The Hidden Face of Light captures the staging of the ephemeral work Jorge Orta created for the Argentine representation at the XLVI Venice International Art Biennale (1995).
Refuge Wear: Lucy Orta
Editeur:
Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris
Date:
1996
Type:
Soft cover, 96 pages, colour illustrations, 17 x 24cm
ISBN:
9 782858 932726
Langage:
French and English
The first appearance of Refuge Wear, Body Architectue and Nexus Architecture and an interview with urbanist and philosopher Paul Virilio positions the work of Lucy Orta throughout the 1990's in the avant-guard.
Light Messenger: Jorge Orta
Editeur:
Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris
Date:
1995
Type:
Soft cover, 96 pages, colour illustrations, 17 x 24cm
ISBN:
9 782858 932474
Langage:
French, English and Spanish
The exhibition catalogue and manifesto for Jorge Orta's representation of Argentina for the XLVI Venice International Art Biennale (1995).