Christian Boltanski
Boltanski is compiling an archive of heartbeats that he intends to be housed on a remote and inaccessible Japanese island. He has already collected over 15,000 individual recordings. One day, these beating hearts will all belong to the dead. If Boltanski's art endures, one might also imagine that the visitors who make it to the island in the future have yet to be born.
Alexander Calder
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After moving to Paris in 1926, Calder developed his Cirque Calder, a miniature work of performance art made of wire and found materials. Performances of the Cirque gained Calder introduction to artists in Paris, then the center of the art world