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Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
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In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh made a series of extraordinary performance art works. Between September 1978 and July 1986, Hsieh realized five separate one-year-long performance pieces in which he conformed to simple but highly restrictive rules throughout each entire year. Through
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Hardcover, 381 pages
Published
March 1st 2009
by MIT Press (MA)
(first published December 19th 2008)
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by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - June 21, 2010
One of my main 1st thoughts on reading this bk was: Oh, No! The academics have gotten their hooks into Tehching! &, in fact, after reading the whole thing, I STILL feel that way. What's most missing from this bk is the voice of the INTENSE, the voice of the people who were Tehching's community - even if he wasn't necessarily aware of who these people were. Ok, Marina Abramovic is in here - but I'm not very ...more
Teching Hsieh's Out of Now
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - June 21, 2010
One of my main 1st thoughts on reading this bk was: Oh, No! The academics have gotten their hooks into Tehching! &, in fact, after reading the whole thing, I STILL feel that way. What's most missing from this bk is the voice of the INTENSE, the voice of the people who were Tehching's community - even if he wasn't necessarily aware of who these people were. Ok, Marina Abramovic is in here - but I'm not very ...more
A complete documentation(statements,posters,photographs) of Mr Hsieh's performance. It's impressive to see all these photos and records and for once, the totally un-portable size of an art book does add value to the presentation of art work.
This statement should give an idea why his performance is still talked about today.
The documentation is bookended by the opening articles and a section of letters written to Mr Hsieh and an interview with Mr Hsieh. The articles are on the themes of the ...more
This statement should give an idea why his performance is still talked about today.
The documentation is bookended by the opening articles and a section of letters written to Mr Hsieh and an interview with Mr Hsieh. The articles are on the themes of the ...more
hsieh now lives in brooklyn. here's an interview from 2003 in the brooklyn rail:
http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/sept03/tehchinghsieh.html
at the moma through 5/18/09 there's a documentation of the year performance wherein he lived in a cage (most of the photos from the moma show are in the book--though they re-make the cage):
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/322
http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/arts/sept03/tehchinghsieh.html
at the moma through 5/18/09 there's a documentation of the year performance wherein he lived in a cage (most of the photos from the moma show are in the book--though they re-make the cage):
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/322
Read mostly the Chinese version with the English version of Heathfield's part aside. Heathfield's writing is so poetic and philosophical but still reflects results of diligent research.
The few previously-unknown facts included about Tehching Hsieh's work are fascinating, but most of the writing is just masturbatory art criticism. If you're the kind of person who enjoys reading art reviews, you'll enjoy this. If not, you'll probably speed-read it like I did.
That said, it is cool to see the photos of Tehching Hsieh's work, which I've never seen before, and the interview with him (towards the back) is really revealing.
That said, it is cool to see the photos of Tehching Hsieh's work, which I've never seen before, and the interview with him (towards the back) is really revealing.
I heard of this artist many years ago and remember seeing a little documentation. I wasn't really all that interested at the time. In the last couple years he has come back up again, and I have to say that I'm extremely impressed by his commitment and sacrifice. This book does an incredibly job documenting the many durational pieces he has undertake, and the text is as good as the photos.
You can read my interview with Tehching Hsieg at http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/l...
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