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.