Etienne-Jules Marey, from the series ‘Mouvements de l’air’ (Movements of air)
In 1901, the French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer built a smoke machine with 58 smoke trails, in order to study movements of air.
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Also tagged 1900, air, DIY, force, French, invisible, light, movement, nature, photographs, physiology, science, smoke machine, study
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Fernando Ortega, ’15 squeaks less’ (2004)
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Also tagged absence, action, apartment, architecture, boards, body, DIY, fernando ortega, floor, found, fuckem, fun, human, mexico, performance, performative, presence, removed, scale, senses, sounds, squeaks, the wild, touch, trash, treading, unknown, walking
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Bruce Nauman, ‘Green Light Corridor’ (1970)
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged action, american, architecture, body, bruce nauman, contact, corridor, DIY, fluorescent, green, human, light, narrow, performance, physical, relational aesthetics, scale, strip, touch, tubelights, tubes, unknown, USA, wall, walls, wooden
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Luis Camnitzer, ‘This is a mirror. You are a written sentence’ (1966)
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Also tagged addressing, conceptualism, DIY, fuckem, fun, german, language, line, luis camnitzer, New York, plate, reading, sentence, text, unknown, uruguayan, viewer, wall, you
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Marcel Broodthaers, ‘Minuit’ (1969)
Part of a series entitled ‘Industrial Poems,’ ‘Minuit’ is made of a thermally shaped plastic sheet, making it possible to reproduce infinite copies of the same thing.
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Posted in Abstraction
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Also tagged belgian, belgium, brussels, circle, clock, cogs, drawing, endless, flat, fuckem, fun, hands, marcel broodthaers, mechanics, minuit, minute, non-functional, plastic, poetry, print, relief, reproductions, round, sculpture, standing, still, stillness, time, unknown, wall, yellow
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Félix González-Torres, untitled (Perfect Lovers) (1987-1990)
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Also tagged absolute, action, american, black, clocks, collection, common, couple, emotions, eternity, feelings, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, installation, likeness, love, objects, pair, performance, place, sameness, sculpture, shared, sharing, space, time, unknown, wall, white
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Richard Wentworth, ‘Yellow Eight’ (1985)
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Also tagged britain, buckets, collage, collection, connected, containers, couple, DIY, double, eight, english, fuckem, golden, infinity, metal, mirrors, pair, Richard Wentworth, sculpture, shiny, tin, two, uk, unknown, yellow
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Janine Antoni, ‘Mom and Dad’ (1994)
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Also tagged acting, action, american, becoming, being, cross-dressing, Dad, DIY, drag, family, fuckem, fun, impersonation, janine antoni, make-up, man, mom, painting, performance, photographs, portraits, posing, unknown, woman
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Giny Vos, ‘Work to do’ (1985)
Intervention on the lighting scheme of the Europoint towers in Rotterdam.
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Also tagged architecture, blocks, command, DIY, fuckem, fun, giny vos, grid, installation, labour, letters, light, lighting, lights, netherlands, off, offices, on, pattern, public space, rooms, rotterdam, spelling, text, towers, wall, windows, work
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