"For one year, beginning on 30 September 1978, Tehching Hsieh lived in an 11ft 6in x 9ft wooden cage. He was not permitted to speak, read or consume any media, but every day a friend visited with food and to remove his waste. The vital context here is that this incarceration was voluntary: Hsieh is a Taiwanese-American artist whose chosen practice is performance art, undertaking durational actions for long periods. Marina Abramovic has called him the master of the form."
"Life can be tough. You have to be your own character. I was very stubborn and had to survive Whenever I tell people about his work, the response is either admiration or incredulity. Why would anyone want to subject themselves to this kind of discipline and repetition over such a long period of time? The kind of art I make is about how I understand the world, says Hsieh. It's how I mark the passing of time."
"Hsieh is sitting in Dia Beacon the museum for the Dia Art Foundation in upstate New York, where a major retrospective, Lifeworks: 1978-1999, is three days from opening. I realised I could use my body to express things' sleeping rough for Outdoor Piece. Photograph: Tehching Hsieh, courtesy Dia Art Foundation/ Tehching Hsieh Born in 1950 as one of 15 children in Nanzhou, Taiwan, Hsieh never finished school."
For one year beginning on 30 September 1978, Tehching Hsieh lived in an 11ft 6in x 9ft wooden cage without speaking, reading, or consuming media; a friend brought food and removed waste daily. In 1980, seven months later, he completed Time Clock Piece by punching a clock-in machine every hour for 365 days. Hsieh frames durational actions as his way to understand the world and to mark the passage of time, insisting time equally affects everyone. He was born in 1950 in Nanzhou, Taiwan, one of 15 children, left school early, began painting during military service, and shifted to performance work.
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