Radical Nature: Solutions for a changing planet at the Barbican
Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space – Map Projections: The Snail (Helical Toroid), 1974. By US land artist Agnes DenesPhotograph: Agnes Denes/PRAlso by Agnes Deans: Wheatfield – A Confrontation, 1982. She planted and harvested two acres of wheat in Battery Park landfill, ManhattanPhotograph: Agnes Denes/Public Art Fund, New YorkHouse of the Century, 1971-73, by the architectural collective Ant FarmPhotograph: Courtesy of Ant Farm/PR
From the photo archive of the Centre for Land Use Interpretation, 1977Photograph: Centre for Land Use Interpretation archive, 1997/PRMonument to Beach Pollution, 1970, staged by artist Hans Haacke, using rubbishPhotograph: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York/PRJoseph Beuys's Honigpumpe am Arbeitsplatz (Honey Pump at the Workplace), 1977Photograph: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, DenmarkAlbatross, 1968, by German artist Lothar BaumgartenPhotograph: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris/PRMobile Wilderness Unit: Wolf, 2006, an installation by US artist Mark DionPhotograph: Lisa Rastl/Georg Kargl Fine Arts, ViennaSocial Mirror, 1983. A mirror-covered sanitation truck by US artist Mierle Laderman UkelesPhotograph: Mierle Laderman Ukeles/Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New YorkFull Farm, 1972, by US eco-artists Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer HarrisonPhotograph: Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison/PRLand artist Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970 (in the Great Salt Lake, Utah)Photograph: Gianfranco Gorgoni/James Cohan Gallery, New YorkIsland for Weeds, 2003, by British conceptual artist Simon StarlingPhotograph: Jeremy Hardman Jones/Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, GlasgowA detail from Flying Garden, 2006, by artist and architect Tomas SaracenoPhotograph: Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar, New York/PRDaimlerstrasse 38, a 2001 installation by Danish artist and environmentalist Tue GreenfortPhotograph: Courtesy of the artist and Johann Konig, Berlin/PR
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