Alien Duration
Tehching Hsieh, 1978-99
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19127150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frazer Ward (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 6-19 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Art Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-3249 • E-ISSN: 2325-5307 |
| Publisher | College Art Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00043249.2006.10791212 |
| OpenAlex | W1976276378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Between 1978 and 1986, Tehching Hsieh performed a series of five One Year Performances in New York.1 These were: Cage Piece (1978-79), in which he inhabited an eleven-and-a-half-by-nine-by-eight-foot cage inside his apartment for a year, neither conversing, reading, writing, listening to the radio, nor watching television, while a friend took charge of his food, clothing, and waste; Time Piece (1980-81), in which he punched a time clock, on the hour every hour, twenty-four hours a day, for 365 days (missing only 134 of 8,760 potential punches); Outdoor Piece (1981-82), in which Hsieh spent an entire year living outdoors, intending not to go into any building, subway, train, car, airplane, ship, cave, or tent (a plan disrupted only by Hsieh's being briefly arrested and taken into a police station after a fight: film documentation makes his distress quite clear); Rope Piece (1983-84), in which Hsieh spent a year tied by an eight-foot rope to another artist, Linda Montano: they were never alone, they were always in the same room at the same time when they were indoors, and they were never to touch (though there was occasional accidental, incidental contact); and finally the fifth in the series (1985-86), in which Hsieh spent a year without art (not doing it, talking about it, reading about it, not going to galleries or museums, “just going in life”). Then, between December 31, 1986, and December 31, 1999, Hsieh made art in secret during Earth, to announce on January 1, 2000, “I kept myself alive.”2
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |