1970s

"Negation, as manifested in anti-monuments such as Oldenburg’s Placid Civic Monument or in Smithson’s conception of “ruins in reverse,” was just one approach to the dematerialization that contributed to the object’s relinquishment of a hard and fast materiality." Ann Reynolds, Dwelling as a World, the Art of  Charles Simonds, 2011

Catalysis is the acceleration of a chemical reaction by a catalyst.

Taller Boricua, located in in El Barrio/East Harlem, New York, is a multidisciplinary cultural space founded in 1969 by Puerto Rican artists to promote the arts and culture of the Puerto Rican community.

A familiar item in many women's wardrobes, stockings recall both the physical presence of the female body and its wider cultural implications. The artist alters such inexpensive everyday materials, which in the case of pantyhose carry simultaneous notions of constriction and beauty, to question accepted understandings of the body. Connie H. Choi, Hammer Museum

"In 1979, Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran. America went blazing in with helicopters to get the hostages out. But it backfired majorly. A helicopter and a plane crashed in the desert. We were left with dead bodies, a pile of burning debris and the hostages nowhere to be seen. So I thought I’d write a song about all that and the failure of technology." Laurie Anderson, The Guardian, 2016