Making a statement (Image: Ian Davie)
Gallery: Artistic agenda: The state of eco-art.
Fast-food chicken bones, red lentils, sardine heads and microbes – not the contents of a kitchen bin, but raw ingredients for a new wave of art. Its aim is to raise awareness of issues around biodiversity, genetically modified food, overpopulation and climate change. As the Museum of Arts and Design in New York explores the genre in its exhibition Dead or Alive, six artists explain to New Scientist what drives them to make their eco-statements.
Gallery: Artistic agenda: The state of eco-art.
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