Image: Lucy + Jorge Orta, Refuge Wear Intervention, London East End 1998 (1998). Lambda photograph, laminated on Dibond, 50x120cm.
Photographer: John Akehurst. Courtesy of Lucy + Jorge Orta.
We are pleased to announce that Lucy Orta will deliver a public lecture on the 7th of March 2019 at 5:30PM.
This public lecture marks the importance of textiles as a discipline at Manchester School of Art and its significance to the wider history and production in Manchester.
Lucy Orta is an artist at the forefront of textiles as a dynamic contemporary practice.
Her work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, communication and identity. She uses the media of drawing, couture, sculpture, performance, video and photography to realise a singular body of work that includes, Refuge Wear and Body Architecture (1992–98), portable, lightweight and autonomous structures that question issues of mobility and survival; Nexus Architecture (1994–2002), public interventions in which participants connect to each other, shaping modular and collective structures that visualise the concept of the social link, and Life Guards (2004–ongoing), which reflects on the body as a metaphorical supportive framework. (www.studio-orta.com/en )
The event reinforces the environment of textile research and practice at Manchester School of Art and links with wider activities around textiles such as the biennale conference Textile and Place hosted by Manchester School of Art and the Whitworth which took place in April 2018. The conference sought to examine how textiles connects with the idea of place in its histories, its production, sustainable future ecologies and in its narratives of migration, sociability and politics.
The talk is hosted by the Manchester School of Art and will take place in the main lecture theatre in the Benzie Building (BZ 4.03).
Photographer: John Akehurst. Courtesy of Lucy + Jorge Orta.
We are pleased to announce that Lucy Orta will deliver a public lecture on the 7th of March 2019 at 5:30PM.
This public lecture marks the importance of textiles as a discipline at Manchester School of Art and its significance to the wider history and production in Manchester.
Lucy Orta is an artist at the forefront of textiles as a dynamic contemporary practice.
Her work investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, communication and identity. She uses the media of drawing, couture, sculpture, performance, video and photography to realise a singular body of work that includes, Refuge Wear and Body Architecture (1992–98), portable, lightweight and autonomous structures that question issues of mobility and survival; Nexus Architecture (1994–2002), public interventions in which participants connect to each other, shaping modular and collective structures that visualise the concept of the social link, and Life Guards (2004–ongoing), which reflects on the body as a metaphorical supportive framework. (www.studio-orta.com/en )
The event reinforces the environment of textile research and practice at Manchester School of Art and links with wider activities around textiles such as the biennale conference Textile and Place hosted by Manchester School of Art and the Whitworth which took place in April 2018. The conference sought to examine how textiles connects with the idea of place in its histories, its production, sustainable future ecologies and in its narratives of migration, sociability and politics.
The talk is hosted by the Manchester School of Art and will take place in the main lecture theatre in the Benzie Building (BZ 4.03).
LUCY ORTA
Born in Great Britain (1966).
Lucy Orta's practice investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, communication and identity. She uses the media of drawing, couture, sculpture, performance, video and photography to realize a singular body of work that includes, Refuge Wearand Body Architecture (1992–98), portable, lightweight and autonomous structures that question issues of mobility and survival; Nexus Architecture (1994–2002), public interventions in which participants connect to each other, shaping modular and collective structures that visualize the concept of the social link, and Life Guards (2004–ongoing), which reflects on the body as a metaphorical supportive framework.
Her work has been the focus of major shows at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (1994); Weiner Secession, Austria (1999); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (1999); University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, USA, for which she received the Visual Arts Award from the Andy Warhol Foundation (2001); and at the Barbican Centre, London (2005). She is the youngest female artist to be the focus of a publication in the Phaidon Press contemporary artist collection (2003).
In acknowledgement of her innovative socially driven work, she was nominated as Head of Man & Humanity, a pioneering master program that stimulates socially driven and sustainable design, which she cofounded with Li Edelkoort at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (2002). She has been a Professor at London College of Fashion since 2002, she is currently the Chair of Art and the Environment and a Member of Centre for Sustainable Fashion at University of the Arts London. In recognition of her academic contribution to the visual arts, she has received an honorary Master of Arts from Nottingham Trent University and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Brighton.
Lucy Orta co-founded the Studio Orta with her partner the Argentine artist Jorge Orta, in 1992. They have worked in partnership since 2005 under the co-authorship Lucy + Jorge Orta.
Born in Great Britain (1966).
Lucy Orta's practice investigates the boundaries between the body and architecture, exploring their common social factors, communication and identity. She uses the media of drawing, couture, sculpture, performance, video and photography to realize a singular body of work that includes, Refuge Wearand Body Architecture (1992–98), portable, lightweight and autonomous structures that question issues of mobility and survival; Nexus Architecture (1994–2002), public interventions in which participants connect to each other, shaping modular and collective structures that visualize the concept of the social link, and Life Guards (2004–ongoing), which reflects on the body as a metaphorical supportive framework.
Her work has been the focus of major shows at Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (1994); Weiner Secession, Austria (1999); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (1999); University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, USA, for which she received the Visual Arts Award from the Andy Warhol Foundation (2001); and at the Barbican Centre, London (2005). She is the youngest female artist to be the focus of a publication in the Phaidon Press contemporary artist collection (2003).
In acknowledgement of her innovative socially driven work, she was nominated as Head of Man & Humanity, a pioneering master program that stimulates socially driven and sustainable design, which she cofounded with Li Edelkoort at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (2002). She has been a Professor at London College of Fashion since 2002, she is currently the Chair of Art and the Environment and a Member of Centre for Sustainable Fashion at University of the Arts London. In recognition of her academic contribution to the visual arts, she has received an honorary Master of Arts from Nottingham Trent University and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Brighton.
Lucy Orta co-founded the Studio Orta with her partner the Argentine artist Jorge Orta, in 1992. They have worked in partnership since 2005 under the co-authorship Lucy + Jorge Orta.
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