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UCCA proudly presents a lecture from Singapore-based art critic Lee Weng Choy on the works and practice of Tehching Hsieh.
Taiwan-born Tehching Hsieh is famous for his legendary One Year Performances of the late seventies and eighties and for his subsequent Thirteen-year Plan, in which he exhibited no art. In March 2012, Hsieh returned to Taiwan for a lecture tour launching the Chinese translation of his monograph, Out of Now: the Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh. Since leaving Taiwan in 1974 to live and practice art in New York, Tehching has returned to his homeland many times, but this visit marked the first time he spoke in public about his life and work. Joining Tehching on his tour was Adrian Heathfield, co-author of the book, JowJiun Gong, the book’s translator, and Lee Weng Choy. In this presentation, Lee will reflect on his experience accompanying Hsieh, Heathfield and Gong in Taiwan.
Storytelling by Hseih’s supporters and admirers has played an instrumental role in the dissemination of the artist’s work. Since the completion of his Thirteen-year Plan, Hsieh has also allowed access to his art through his own storytelling. This presentation will address the relationship between Hsieh’s documents and his narrative, his reception in Taiwan during the lecture tour and the q
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Beginning in 1980, Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock 8,760 times over the course of a yearlong performance. He issued a statement, shaved his head, donned a uniform and began a project that pushed at the limits of human endurance. Hsieh essentially denied himself sleep, given the self-imposed requirement to punch the clock hourly. To do so, he needed multiple alarm clocks attached to amplifiers to penetrate his befogged brain. Hsieh put himself in “a mindful state of delirium that forced confrontation with time itself;” he also generated a “physical model of time passing” with 8,760 timecards and corresponding documentary photographs. That year, Hsieh felt like Sisyphus, he said, engaged in a futile task that nonetheless gave his life purpose and structure. In a contemporary cultural moment overwhelmed by digital noise, image overload and information mayhem, the ritualized analogue life of Hsieh during this yearlong performance feels like a contemporary critique from the near past. This artwork nurtures the beginnings of meaningful conversations about spirituality, meaning, labor, daily life and the creative spirit. Thought of as the godfather of performance art, Hsieh's work as a performance artist is foundational to the art form. The is the second time this work will be se
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