Posted on 12/19/2017 2:19:27 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Marina Abramović has referred to the performance artist Tehching Hsieh as “the master.” And over the course of his three-decade-long career, Hsieh has isolated himself in a barren, caged room, making no contact with the outside world; lived and slept on the streets of New York, avoiding any form of shelter; and tied himself to a woman with a rope—each piece lasting for an entire year. (“Life is a life sentence; life is passing time, life is free thinking,” he has said, suggesting the stoic philosophy that guided these radical, time-based performances and others of the late 1970s through the ’90s.)
Yet, despite having undergone these extraordinary performative endurance tests, Hsieh is often excluded from major texts on conceptual and performance art and, strangely, remained relatively unknown until he quit making art altogether. The artist has since participated in prominent museum shows and published a major academic tome—as well as representing his home country of Taiwan at the Venice Biennale this past summer, in his most comprehensive retrospective to date.
Who is this enigmatic artist? What drove him to tie himself to a woman for a year? And why did it take so long for the art world to notice?
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No, that’s not ridiculous.
Not at all.
That’s nothing!
I’ve been tied to a woman for 38 Years!................
Leonardo DeCinch-y
It’s not “Art” by my definition, which is simply, “If I could do it, it ain’t art.”
BS. This trick has been around for thousands of years.
It’s called marriage.
He didn’t get real notice until he quit making art? Just want until he dies. His name will be a household word.
I hope he had to hear an old Helen Reddy song 10 or 15 times a day for the whole year.
Performance artist Chris Burden had an assistant shoot him in the arm with a rifle. I believe he later said that it hurt a lot more than he expected. That was in 1971. He died in 2015, so I guess he recovered.
Wonder what happened to the guy who used to catch bullets with his teeth?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Ling_Soo
A number of people have done that trick. The first guy died in 1918 when the trick went wrong.
“It’s not “Art” by my definition, which is simply, “If I could do it, it ain’t art.””
Picasso did a simple line drawing. When asked how long it took him, he replied “Seventy years.”
The trick isn’t in doing it, it’s in selling an initial piece to some sucker for enough money that other suckers with more money than brains are convinced that it’s cool to own or participate in it.
I’m trying to imagine what it would be like to care about what an existentialist claims.
because it’s stupid and no one cares
He's also done a bunch of installations like these ones at the Los Angeles County Art Museum:
That makes me think of other conceptual artists, such as Christo, the european who used to cloak entire cities in orange fabric.
It is beyond belief, nobody acknowledges this demonic Spirit Cooking excuse for a human being as John and Tony Podesta and David Brock and Hillary Clinton’s good friend.
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