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Thinking about what can be defined as art is like trying to clean spilt milk with shoelaces.
Funeral performance. Yes, art.
Secretive Art. Yes. See Henry Darger or Hilma Af Klimt.
Outsider art. See Stephen Kaltenbach's decision to move to become a "Regional Artist."
Unseen art. Sure. It exists as far as you think it. Tons of conceptual artists were working with this idea. Lee Lozono's Dropout piece as well.
Lots of artists creating massive monumental work that alter the earth. Earthwork movement obviously.
Your last question is the one that extends furthest and sort of points to the problems inherent in the question of what is art.
"Is their art in this cycle?" is a very different question than "is this art?" that slides between two very different defintions to the word art.
Artful is adjective. Art is a socially based cultural form that isn't natural, it can be manipulated at will. Social definitions of art have changed dramatically over the centuries. An interesting introduction to this as a thought experiment is Believing Is Seeing: Creating the Culture of Art by Mary Anne Staniszewski
https://www.amazon.com/Believing-Seeing-Creating-Culture-Art/dp/0140168249
I recommend that if you are new to this.
Otherwise check out cultural theorists. Pierre Borudieu is sort of like the reigning champion of critical takedown of the arts as a cultural form.