YouTube |10 artists responding 

Gemma Lloyd surfs YouTube to find great moments in which artists have responded to the environment.


ONE Fiber Wave, Tokyo 1996 by Makoto Sei Watanabe

Fiber Wave consists of 40 4.5m flexible carbon fibre rods, each fitted with a solar-powered light-emitting diode, that sway in the wind.

Makoto Sei Watanabe


TWO Spiral Jetty, Utah 1970 by Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson's classic piece of Land Art Spiral Jetty was created using local rock from the Great Salt Lake.

Spiral Jetty on robertsmithson.com

spiraljetty.org


THREE James Turrell interviewed

James Turrell's most famous artwork is Roden Crater, a "naked-eye" observeratory built in a volcanic crater in the Arizona desert.

Roden Crater on BBC World Service



FOUR The Lightening Field, New Mexico 1977by Walter De Maria

The Lightening Field is created from 400 steel rods placed in a one kilometer grid in the New Mexico desert.

lighteningfield.org


FIVE 7000 Oaks, Kassel 1982 by Joseph Beuys

Beuys' influential project was initiated at Documenta 7 in 1982.

Joseph Beuys on RSA Arts & Ecology



SIX Münster Sculpture Project 07, 2007 by Tue Greenfort

 


Pumping iron chloride into an artifical lake to supress algal blooms created by phosphate run-offs by industrial agriculture, Greenfort's lake becomes a critique of our relationship with water.

Talking Trash and Not Wasting Away: Max Andrews on Tue Greenfort

Tue Greenfort interviewed on RSA Arts & Ecology


SEVEN Skoghall Konsthall, Skoghall 2000 by Alfredo Jaar

An exhibition hall built entirely from paper, by Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar.

Alfredo Jaar 


EIGHT First Woman on the Moon, Utrecht 1999 by Aleksandra Mir

For one day, Aleksandra Mir transformed a beach into a lunar landscape.

aleksandramir.info


NINE Poetic Cosmos of the Breath, 2007 by Tomas Saraceno


Poetic Cosmos of the Breath was an experimental solar dome created at dawn on 22 September 2007 at Gunpowder Park, Essex, UK. Commissioned by The Arts Catalyst.

Tomas Saraceno interview


TEN The New York City Waterfalls, 2008 by Olafur Eliasson

New York City Waterfalls ran from June 2008 consisted of four man-made waterfalls on New York's waterfronts.

RSA Best of 2008 by Emma Ridgway



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