Love Me or Leave Me Alone: The Very Public Art of Heather Peak and Ivan Morison - Hardcover

Doherty, Claire; Wade, Gavin

 
9781908970473: Love Me or Leave Me Alone: The Very Public Art of Heather Peak and Ivan Morison
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1908970472 ISBN 13: 9781908970473
Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2022

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This monograph documents works by Studio Morison, established in 2003 by British artists Heather Morison (born 1973) and Ivan Morison (born 1974), known for their large-scale, architectural sculptures in public environments. Texts by curators, architects, sci-fi writers and collaborators accompany the duo’s reflections on each work.

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Claire Doherty is the director of Arnolfini in Bristol, UK. Gavin Wade is director of artist-run gallery space Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK.

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Artists Heather and Ivan Morison and their studio have established an ambitious collaborative practice that transcends traditional divisions between art, architecture, theatre and activism. Their work is often performance-based and site-specific, existing as one-off events, social projects or large-scale installations and buildings in public spaces. In particular, they are known for their architectural structures that relate to ideas of escape, play, shelter and refuge, the transformation of the modern city, and the function of civic communities. Their central preoccupation has always been how we navigate catastrophe and the violence of change. More recent works have moved from a wider collective view to how individuals deal with moments of personal calamity. Frequently working with governments, business and community groups, the Morisons see their role as making art that enables others to see the world and themselves afresh, to lift themselves out of the everyday, and to transform the places in which they li

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908970472
ISBN 13 
9781908970473
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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