- Glasgow School of Art students address vital question in latest activation of seminal artwork, Nexus Architecture
- Work has been activated all over the world including Shanghai, New York, Berlin and Johannesburg,
Drawing from the emblematic social sculpture Nexus Architecture, initiated in 1993, Studio Orta have made 50 blank-canvas overalls for art and design students to customise in a series of workshops creating an interconnected chain of solidarity from Glasgow to London.
50 students from The Glasgow School of Art have are currently working on the overalls creating a customised response to the climate crisis and reflecting on the question What Would the Earth have Us Do?. Next week 50 students from University of the Arts will further customise the suits which will then be used in a public performance in front of Tate Britain and Chelsea College of Art’s Parade Ground, as part of the Carnival of Crisis Parade for Climate Justice(November 10, from 1-3pm).
This activation has been supported by Art of Change 21 with Schneider Electric Foundation and is part of ART-CLIMATE-COP 26, Art of Change’s programme of events for COP26. Art of Change specializes in the link between art and the environment, and has been present at each COP since 2015.
“ART-CLIMATE-COP 26 is an urgent call to action, in the context of the climate crisis, underlining the need to include creative and imaginative stakeholders and allowing an emotional response to the issues,” says Alice Audouin, President and Founder of Art for Change.
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Lucy Orta (b. 1966, UK)
Lives and works between Paris and London. She is one half of Lucy + Jorge Orta, an internationally renowned artist duo, founded in 1992. Collaboratively the artists explore major social and ecological challenges through a wide range of media including, sculpture, couture, painting, video, performance. They have had prestigious international exhibitions from the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence to the Venice and Shanghai Biennales. heir long-term projects address major themes such as water scarcity (OrtaWater); climate change (Antarctica); biodiversity and ecosystems (Amazonia). In 2007, the artists received the Green Leaf Award from the UN Environment Programme. Lucy Orta is currently the Chair of Art and the Environment at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and founder of its Art for the Environment International Residency Programme.