Ai Weiwei, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995)Photograph: guardian.co.uk12 October 2009: How It Is, Miroslaw Balka's cavernous black hole, named after the 1961 prose work by Samuel Beckett, in which characters crawl endlessly through the mud and the dark – towards nothing at allPhotograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty13 October 2008: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster recreates sculptures by artists including Henry Moore and Louise Bourgeois (so, yes, that's another spider) and places them among a sea of metal bunk beds - offering, she suggested, a post-apocalyptic vision of London under attackPhotograph: David Levene/David Levene
8 October 2007: Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo placed a 167m-long crack in the floor of Tate Modern. The work, entitled Shibboleth, took over a year to construct and had critics and visitors guessing as to how the 'bottomless' fissure was created Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty9 October 2006: Belgian-born Carsten Höller's installation, Test Site 2006, placed a series of spiralling slides inside the Turbine Hall. Visitors were encouraged to helter-skelter from the top of Tate ModernPhotograph: David Levene/freelance10 October 2005: Embankment by Rachel Whiteread (October 2005-April 2006). The Turner-Prize-winning artist created a labyrinthine installation built of semi-opaque white casts of boxes. With an overall volume of 1,437 cubic metres, this was Whiteread's largest work to datePhotograph: David Levene/freelance11 October 2004: Raw Materials by Bruce Nauman (October 2004-May 2005). Instead of trying to fill the vast space with material, the American artist filled it with sound. Speakers were positioned in such a way that visitors encountered 'bands of sound' that ran in strips across the Turbine Hall's widthPhotograph: Martin Argles/Guardian15 October 2003: The Weather Project by Olafur Eliasson (October 2003–March 2004). Visitors flocked to the Danish artist's representation of the sun, achieved by combining hundreds of mono-frequency lamps in a semicircle, mirrored to produce a radiant spherePhotograph: Dan Chung/Guardian28 November 2002: Marsyas by Anish Kapoor (October 2002–April 2003). Kapoor's piece comprised three steel rings joined together by a single span of dark red, 'fleshy' PVC membranePhotograph: Eamonn McCabe/Guardian11 June 2001: Double Bind by Juan Muñoz (June 2001–March 2002). The Spanish artist created two worlds in the hall, with lifts going up and down overground, and figures engaged in mysterious activities undergroundPhotograph: Frank Baron/Guardian4 May 2000: I Do I Undo I Redo by Louise Bourgeois (May–December 2000) The installation consisted of three steel towers which visitors could climb, as well as a giant spiderPhotograph: Martin Godwin/freelance
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