Tehching Hsieh: Doing Time / Taiwan Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2017 (VIDEO)

Tehching Hsieh: Doing Time / Taiwan Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2017 (VIDEO)
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Tehching Hsieh: Doing Time at the Taiwan Pavilion of the Venice Art Biennale 2017 is one of the most remarkable exhibitions of the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Adrian Heathfield and organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan, the show introduces the visitor to the work of Tehching Hsieh, who in the late 1970s and early 1980s carried out five separate yearlong performances that were unprecedented in terms of their use of physical difficulty over extreme durations.

The exhibition Doing Time at Venezia’s Palazzo delle Prigioni presents two of Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performances together for the first time: Hsieh’s Time Clock Piece and his Outdoor Piece and also three of Tehching Hsieh’s previously unseen works. This video provides you with an exhibition walk-through and with excerpts of the interviews with the artist Tehching Hsieh and the curator of the exhibition Adrian Heathfield.

Tehching Hsieh realized six durational performance pieces completed between 1978 and 2000 in New York. In the Time Clock Piece (1980-1981) Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Each time he punched the clock, he took a single picture of himself, which together yield a 6-minute movie. In the Outdoor Piece (1981-1982) the artist spent one year outside, not entering buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents.

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance (Time Clock Piece) (1980-1981)

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance (Time Clock Piece) (1980-1981)

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