The small work is conceived like a stage set with parted curtains.
There are women who cannot conceive (like Monica in Secrets and Lies or Barbara in Meantime).
The unexpectedly upbeat single "Heartstopper" is conceived, like many of the songs on the album, as a letter — in this case to a former lover.
With this 2003 piece, conceived, like most contemporary art, for museum display, we technically cross a decisive line from ethnology to art.
But with this typical town garden, a large part of the enjoyment will come from seeing it from one angle, so it must be conceived like a photograph.
It promises to be a strangely seamless spatial experience, interiors conceived like the airtight cabins of aeroplanes or cars, with few joints in sight.
Tino Sehgal, for one, rejects the label completely, describing the live events he conceives — like the couple currently at the Guggenheim, re-enacting kisses portrayed by Klimt and Rodin — as "constructed situations," a phrase lifted from the French theorist Guy Debord.
Our first year of trying, when my husband and I were 30 and 31, was a time of assumptions: that we would conceive like everyone else, that having a child was the most natural thing in the world.
Conceived like a piece of land art, visitors are invited to walk up a grassy cleft between the building and its sunken car park, and climb on to its roof, where skylights illuminate a cave-like world of raw concrete below.
"In This World" follows a number of recent movies -- many of them from Iran and many of them conceived, like Mr. Winterbottom's, before 9/11 and the war against the Taliban -- that have examined the plight of Afghans forced from their homeland by more than two decades of war.
