Why is liberation and re-liberation necessary? The teleological narrative of Western human development urbanism, technology, and American democracy are it. This fails to consider is how each of these is traps humanity in their failings. Urbanism efficiently manages the habitation of growing populations, while also over defining private and public spaces. Technology revolutionizes research, medicine, and communications, but also corrodes fundamental human intimacy. American democracy radically changed global understandings of equality, but is also built on sexist racist demarcations of space and time. “Imponderabilia,” was Abramović and Ulay’s way of bringing museum visitors back to basic humanness: body, contact, relationship. As the visitors walked in between the naked duo they were forced to contend with the vulnerability of their own subject position. The private is made public in this publicly private performance. Skin to skin sensation is inevitable. They are living people, male and female foreigners. All this constructed modernism fluff goes out the window, even if just for a moment, and that dissensus is liberating.