Clouds | Nuages: Lucy + Jorge Orta
Publisher:
Damiani, Bologna
Date:
2011
Type:
Paperback 224 pages full colour throughout, 16,5 x 23,5cm
ISBN:
10: 8862082169 / 13: 978-8862082167
Language:
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
Publisher:
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
Language:
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
Publisher:
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
Language:
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
Publisher:
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
Language:
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
Publisher:
Electa Mondadori, Italy
Date:
2008
Type:
Hard Cover, 174 pages, full colour plates, 22 x 27cm
ISBN:
978-88-370-6087-9
Language:
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
Publisher:
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
Language:
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
Publisher:
Gli Ori, Italy
Date:
2005
Type:
Soft cover, 160 pages, black and white, 15 x 21,5 cm
ISBN:
887-33-6169-2
Language:
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
Publisher:
Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich
Date:
2003
Type:
Monograph. Soft Cover, 144 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 20 x 26 cm
ISBN:
388-96-0066-2
Language:
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
Publisher:
Phaidon Press, UK
Date:
2003
Type:
Soft cover, 160 pages, 200 colour illustrations, 25 x 29 cm
ISBN:
10: 0714843008 / 13: 9780714843001
Language:
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
Publisher:
Editions Jean-Michel Place, Paris
Date:
1999
Type:
Monograph. Soft cover 160 pages, colour illustrations, 17 x 24 cm
ISBN:
9 782858 934027
Language:
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.