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David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, 1983,

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Teresa Margolles

Aire/air (2003) by Mexican artist Margolles fills space with air that is both physically and emotionally charged: water that has been used to wash the bodies of murder victims in Mexico City's morgues is either dispensed as a fine mist via humidifiers, or (in a variant presumably intended to counteract the unease of viewers confronted with a too-stickily-tangible manifestation of violent death), used to cool the air blown out of air-conditioning units.

Margolles, who studied forensic science and once worked in the morgues themselves, turned to art as a means of confronting the evidence of brutality and misery her former occupation involved: "I didn't know how to express myself in relation to human death".

Aire serves as an unseen yet tangible testament to lives themselves rendered invisible by violent crime.

http://www.modernedition.com/art-articles/absence-in-art/air-as-art-medium.html

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Ryan Gander: I Need Some Meaning I Can Memorise, (The Invisible Pull) 2012

In a large room at the ground floor, left completely empty, a light breeze is blowing. The visitor experiences a physical presence while wondering if it is a natural or artificial phenomenon.

http://socks-studio.com/2012/08/09/documenta-13-three-invisible-works/

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Walead Beshty

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Consummate Mask of Rock

Bruce Nauman 1.This is my mask of fidelity to truth and life. 2.This is to cover the mask of pain and desire. 3.This is to mask the cover of need for human companionship. 4.This is to mask the cover. 5.This is to cover the mask. 6.This is the need of cover. 7.This is the need of a mask. 8.This is the mask of cover of need. 9.Nothing and no 9.No thing and no mask can cover the lack, alas. 10.Lack after nothing before cover revoked. 11.Lack before cover paper covers rock rock breaks mask alas, alack. 12.Nothing to cover 13.This is the 13.This is the mask to cover my infidelity to truth. 14. 13.This is the mask to cover my infidelity to truth. (This is my cover.) 14.This is the need for pain that contorts my mask conveying the message of truth and fidelity to life. 15.This is the truth that distorts my need for human companionship. 16.This is the distortion of truth masked by my painful need. 17.This is the mask of my painful need distressed by truth and human companionship. 18.This is my painless mask that fails to touch my face but floats before the surface of my skin my eyes my teeth my tongue. 19.Desire is my mask. (Musk of desire) 20.Rescind desire cover revoked desire revoked cover rescinded. 21.PEOPLE DIE OF EXPOSURE.

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The Space Under My Hand When I Write My Name, Bruce Nauman. 1966

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Adrian Piper, Untited (Elements: Wristwatch A Wristwatch B). 1968

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Callanish standing stones

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Senga Nengudi

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Theaster Gates, Gone Are the Days of Shelter and Martyr. 2014

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clown mask

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Martin Cordiano, Common Place. 2017


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Peles Empire

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Adrian Piper, Everything will be taken away # 21, 2015

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Rainer's first film, Hand Movie, was shot by fellow dancer William Davis when Rainer was confined to a hospital bed, recovering from major surgery and unable to dance. The resulting five minutes of footage is a sustained close-up shot of Rainer's hand against a grey background as it stretches and contracts, bends and points, performing the kinds of everyday, quotidian movements that characterize her pioneering minimalist choreography.