Lucy Jorge Orta Pattern Book

Lucy + Jorge Orta Pattern Book

Jorge + Lucy Orta Pattern Book: An Introduction to Collaborative Practices presents projects by renowned artists Jorge and Lucy Orta. Their art melds fashion, architecture, design with social activism, reflecting how Jorge and Lucy operate not only as artists, but as campaigners, community mediators and educators. Jorge and Lucy address concerns which are both contemporary and topical -- community and social inclusion, dwellings and mobility, recycling and sustainable development -- but which also tap into primordial traditions and cultures, such as nomadism. Internationally acclaimed, their work has been exhibited worldwide including at the Louvre Museum, Paris; Deitch Projects, New York; PS1, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Hayward Gallery, London; Secession, Vienna; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Pitti Imagine, Florence; Design Academy, Eindhoven. This book presents six of their latest projects co-produced with community groups in diverse locations from Australia to South Africa, from grand metropolis such as New York to deprived industrial towns such as Thiers (France). Jorge + Lucy Orta Pattern Book: An Introduction to Collaborative Practices is also a practical tool the reader can use to set up their own workshops and education programmes, and includes detachable pattern sheets for the reader to use to create their own projects. This beautifully illustrated book will captivate a diverse audience of artists, fashion designers, engineers, architects, community workers, and teachers.

Lucy + Jorge Orta pattern book

Artificial Hells

The award-winning, highly acclaimed Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as "social practice." In recent decades, the art gallery and the museum have become a place for participatory art, where an audience is encouraged to take part in the artwork. This has been heralded as a revolutionary practise that can promote new emancipatory social relations. What was it is really? In this fully updated edition, Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawel Althamer and Paul Chan. Bishop challenges the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art this practise. She not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. In response Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.