Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food & The Public Sphere

Food & The Public Sphere is a compelling publication that spans Lucy + Jorge Orta’s 20-year dedication to the power of art and food. This visual compendium of socially engaging projects, sculpture and objects, examines the artists’ practice in context of major concerns of the 21st century: environmental change, species loss, food scarcity, food waste, and sustainable development.

“The artists' food-recycling enterprises, mass open-air meals, gleaned gastronomic diners, and mobile soups kitchens have pioneered a renewed interest in the politics of food. Communities all over the world—working from the scale of global food networks down to local methods for farming and cooking—are seeking ways to make the food system better serve the needs of people and the planet. After decades of successful mass, cheap food production, policymakers and citizens are recognizing the environmental and social cost of this process. The over-industrialisation of food has forced small farms to surrender to agribusiness, reduced biodiversity in favour of monoculture crops, and assaulted communities with debilitating chronic diseases. Lucy + Jorge Orta illuminate, through the diversity of their work, issues of abundance, scarcity, waste and loss, while drawing people into a reflective experience of art that combines the aesthetics of eating, drinking, cooking, and dining”. Ellen Lupton

Food and the Public Sphere was published by Black Dog Publishing to coincide with the exhibition Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food, City Gallery and Museum Peterborough from 10 September – 4 December 2016

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