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Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance: Arts Documents 1978-1999

Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance: Arts Documents 1978-1999
Publication Date 2000
Description

This DVD-ROM documents the life work of Tehching Hsieh. Hsieh is an artist whose medium of expression is not words or sounds or paint, but his own life. His work consists of five "One Year Performances," done between the years of 1978 and 1986, and "Earth," a thirteen-year performance that stretched from the end of 1986 to the end of 1999. Each of these Performances involves a particular vow, a particular constraint, and a particular mode of being. Each of them is meticulously documented in a manner appropriate to its content. And, although Hsieh never explicitly states his rationales for his pieces, each of them implicitly raises profound, difficult questions about life and art and being, and about what it means to live in the world we live in.

Quantity 1
Author Steven Shaviro
Format DVD
Related Artist Tehching Hsieh
Category Live Art/Performance
Artist's Nationality Tawainese

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