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This video by Coco Fusco includes footage of the artist traveling by boat around Hart Island the site of New Yorks public cemetery that was operated by the citys department of corrections until October 1 2021 Since 1869 prison labor has been used to bury more than a million New Yorkers in mass graves on the island Many individuals have been buried anonymouslyespecially during epidemics Fuscos video features a meditation she wrote on the conditions of the current pandemic and is performed by poet Pamela Sneed