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Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends<\/em><\/strong> is the first book to document the extraordinary activity at the LYC Museum & Art Gallery in Banks, Cumbria between 1972 and 1983. The LYC was the singleminded effort of the artist Li Yuan-chia, who moved to the rural North of England by way of London, Bologna, Taipei and Guangxi, China. At the LYC, Li organised exhibitions, published books, exhibited archealogical artefacts, arranged workshops and welcomed an array of visitors from local and international artists and art workers to nearby residents and travellers, many of whom became friends. In this book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at Kettle’s Yard, the curators Hammad Nasar, Amy Tobin and Sarah Victoria Turner, establish Li’s work at the LYC as a form of worldmaking, connecting his cosmic conceptual art practice, to his interest in participation and friendship as well as his engagement with nature and the landscape. Nasar, Tobin and Turner’s account is accompanied by nine short texts – by Elizabeth Fisher, Ysanne Holt, Annie Jael Kwan, Lesley Ma, Gustavo Grandal Montero, Luke Roberts, Nick Sawyer & Harriet Aspin, Nicola Simpson and Diana Yeh – that trace the diverse threads and ramifications of Li’s practice historically and in the present. Richly illustrated, Making New Worlds<\/em><\/strong> offers a provocative new way of thinking the history of British art in the 20th century. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends is the first book to document the extraordinary activity at the LYC Museum & Art Gallery in Cumbria between 1972–83.<\/p>\n

Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends<\/p>\n

Written by Hammad Nasar, Sarah Victoria Turner and Amy Tobin<\/p>\n

Nine short texts by:<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Fisher<\/p>\n

Ysanne Holt<\/p>\n

Annie Jael Kwan<\/p>\n

Lesley Ma<\/p>\n

Gustavo Grandal Montero<\/p>\n

Luke Roberts<\/p>\n

Nick Sawyer & Harriet Aspin<\/p>\n

Nicola Simpson<\/p>\n

Diana Yeh<\/p>\n

Afterword by the Director of Kettle’s Yard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47184,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43859","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-by-author-amy-tobin","8":"author-by-author-hammad-nasar","9":"author-by-author-sarah-victoria-turner","10":"publisher-kettles-yard-university-of-cambridge","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMaking New Worlds - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Making New Worlds, Pages: 232 Pages, Publish Date: 6th Nov 2023, Author: Amy Tobin, Hammad Nasar, Sarah Victoria Turner, ISBN: 9781904561781. 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