Index Code:

ART-OAT-HSI

Orgin:

Taiwan/USA

Field Notes:

Year long performances bind the artist to clocks cages labor or outdoor life

Defining Moment:

The One Year works where rules and documentation build an invisible yet rigid architectural frame for existence

Tehching Hsieh

(

1950–

)

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Hsieh built a world where life becomes endurance — yearlong performances measured through repetition, labor, and constraint.

His works expose existence as uncompromising architecture.

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Tehching Hsieh’s work, this approach appears where duration defines form.

Position

Time as Material

Duration, aging, fading, accumulation, or delay is integral to the work. Form unfolds rather than presents itself immediately.

In Tehching Hsieh’s work, this approach appears where duration defines form.

Spatial Reduction

Space is clarified through subtraction, compression, and restraint.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere accumulates through calibrated light, tone, and spatial pacing.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Space

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Conceptual Art

Language, instruction, and proposition function as the work itself.

Tehching Hsieh

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Position

Time as Material

Observartory

In Dialogue

Tehching Hsieh

Structural Focus

Time as Material

Position

Time as Material

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue