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Tehching Hsieh Liverpool Bienniel

Really mind blowing to see all these photos lined up in the Gallery space like this Tehching Hsieh is an artist who has been mythologized since retiring from making art in 2000. In 1970s and 1980s New York, he made an exceptional series of artworks: five separate one-year-long performances.

The exhibition will focus on documentation of his performance ‘life work’, One Year Performance 1980-1981 (Time Clock Piece).

For one year, the artist punched a worker’s time clock located in his studio, on the hour, every hour. Marking the occasion by taking a self-portrait on a single frame of 16mm film, the resulting reel documents a year in his life at approximately one second per day – a pace that is polar opposite of the enduring length of the original performance. The punch cards, witnessed by a third party for authenticity, and other ephemera, document Hsieh’s life restructured around this highly repetitive task.

Other works

Cage Piece 

The Outdoor Piece Hsieh’s third and most challenging one-year performance began September 26, 1981. The Outdoor Piece demanded that he live outside and never enter a building, subway, train, car, airplane, ship, cave or tent. He permitted himself no exceptions, even to buy food or use the restroom. He had a backpack with clothes, a camera and other necessities and a sleeping bag. He mainly kept to himself. New York City became his extended home, Chinatown was his kitchen, the West Village his bedroom and other areas his bathroom. He documented the performance with photographic self-portraits and maps of his solitary journeys.


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