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Marina Abramovic 1

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Rhythm 5, 1974, Performance, her body at the mercy of the situation, stretches spread eagle in the star, she passed out from the smoke and audience had to save her

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Ilya Kabakov

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The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, 10 Characters, 1988, installation

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Boris Mikhailov

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Case History, 1997-98, photography, socialist realism, how things shifted in the post-soviet world, life-sized photos that match your size

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Mladen Stilinovic´

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Exploitation of the Dead, 1984-90, mixed media, uses red and black for communism and uses miniature representation to render them meaningless

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Lygia Clark

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Bichos (Critters), 1960 and Bicho de bolso (Pocket Critter), 1966, Dimensions and medium variable, sculptures you can fold, something permanent into something moveable

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Hélio Oiticica

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Parangolés, 1964, mixed media, habitable paintings, wear them while dancing the samba

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Lygia Pape

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O Ovo (The Egg), 1967, performance, rebirth

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Leon Ferrari

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Western and Christian Civilization, 1965, polyester, wood, cardboard, criticizes political and social cultures, an attack on Christianity and militarism, the Christ doens’t symbolize eternal life but harbinger and imminent death

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Gloria Camiruaga

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Popsicles, 1982-84, performance and video

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Tania Bruguera

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The Burden of Guilt, 1997-99, performance for decapitated lamb, rope, water, salt, Cuban soil, she wears the lamb and eats dirt, indigenous and religious strategy, protests censorship

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Asco

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Spray Paint LACMA, 1972, documentation of actions, spray painted names on the museum to claim it as their own

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Sam Nhlengethwa

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It left him cold– The Death of Steve Biko, 1990, collage, pencil, and charcoal on paper, about apartheid, massive head because it’s his head that we lost

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William Kentridge

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Drawing for II Sole 24 Ore [World Walking], 2007, mixed media on paper

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Wang Guangyi

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Great Criticism– Coca Cola, 1994, oil on canvas

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Xu Bing

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Book From the Sky, 1986-89, installation

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Ramingining Artists

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The Aboriginal Memorial, 1987-88, installation of 200 hollow log bone coffins, natural pigments on wood, about colonialism, you have to walk through it

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Uta Uta Tjangala

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Yumari, 1981, synthetic polymer paint on canvas

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Emily Kane Kngwarreye

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Earth’s Creation, 1993, acrylic on canvas, it’s not exactly the world but a reflection of it

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Imants Tillers

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The Nine Shots, 1985, Synthetic polymer paint and oil stick

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Gordon Bennett

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Notes to Basquiat (Jackson Pollack and his other), 2001, acrylic on canvas

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Andy Goldsworthy

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Reconstructed Icicles/around a tree, 1995, Ice

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Yinka Shonibare MBE

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Victorian Philanthropist’s Parlor, 1996-97, reproduction furniture, fire screen, carpet, props, Dutch wax printed cotton textile

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Tracey Rose

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Span I and Span II, 1997, performance and mixed media installation

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El Anatsui

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Fresh and Fading Memories Part I-IV, 2007, installation with bottle caps and wire, in three angles, you can see the cloth, the printing plates come from Pittsburgh and symbolize industry of the city, the mirrors give you an open future, the two sculptures are separate in an open-ended fashion, the cloth is worn with tears due to time

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Shirin Neshat

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Fervor, 2000, Gelatin silver prints, gender binaries

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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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Reading for Male and Female Corpses, 2001, video

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Navjot Atlaf

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Nalpar Project, 2001, water pump project

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Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison

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Peninsula Europe as a Center of a World, 2001, installation

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Hans Haacke

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Der Bevölkerung, 1999-2000 and ongoing, northern interior courtyard, Reichtag, Berlin

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Thomas Hirschhorn

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Bataille Monument, 2002, installation

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Julie Mehrtu

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Stadia_II, 2004, ink and acrylic on canvas

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Thomas McIntosh with Mikko Hynninen and Emmanuel Madan

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Ondulation, 2002, installation, waves on water

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Pierre Huyghe

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The Third Memory, 2000, double project film, the artist takes a film from 1975 and reconstructs the scene with his own editing, time shifts between past and present

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Josephine Meckseper

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The Complete History of Postcontemporary Art, 2005, installation, like you’re looking in a shop window

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Blast Theory

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Day of the Figurines, 2005-6, SMS-text messaging game and installation

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Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, et. al.

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T_Visionarium II, 2006, interactive environment

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Marina Abramovic 2

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The Artist is Present, 2012, video

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Ai Weiwei

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Snake Ceiling, 2009, backpacks

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Allan Sekula and Nöel Burch

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The Forgotten Space, 2010, film

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Christian Marclay

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The Clock, 2010, 35mm film, 24 hours

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