ProjectBase have invited artists Lucy + Jorge Orta to undertake a 2-year research project which focuses on exchange and collaboration with UK and International partnerships.

The project is being developed in partnership with a number of national and international partners (details to be confirmed soon).

For Lucy + Jorge Orta, art is a catalyst for social change. Confronted with the growing crisis of poverty, exclusion and dislocation in our society, the Orta's have produced numerous interventions and actions which address crucial themes of the contemporary world: the community and social exclusion, dwelling, mobility, sustainable development and recycling. Antarctic Village - No Borders was first developed in the early 1990's by Lucy and Jorge Orta as a utopian endeavour through which the artists could consider the current climate of migration and the refugee status in which many people throughout the world find themselves. A recent UN source states that over the next four decades mass migration will occur mainly from the African and Asian continents, resulting in an unprecedented global change.

During the evolution of the Antarctica project, the artists designed a new series of survival kits which reference both physical/material survival, and, symbolically the spiritual needs of man, like the recovery of a lost social dimension of solidarity.

The research and development of new work with ProjectBase and partners explores the treacherous journey encountered during migration and the survival of sailors, migrants and refugees, and their physical and psychological needs including the loss of home, comfort, lack of food or water.