Tehching Hsieh

time as absolute structure

Tehching Hsieh is a Taiwanese-American performance artist known for extreme one-year works in which he punched a time clock hourly, lived in a cage, avoided shelter, or tied himself to another artist. His pieces examine discipline, time, constraint, and the limits of the body within social structures.

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Hsieh’s endurance works remain foundational to contemporary performance art.

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Tehching Hsieh is a Taiwanese-American performance artist known for yearlong endurance works exploring time and constraint.

Tehching Hsieh is a performance artist known for radical one-year durational works that examine discipline, labor, and the passage of time.

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