Tehching Hsieh Visiting Artists Program Lecture
@ The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
230 S. Columbus Dr.
Opening Tuesday, April 24th, from 5:45PM - 7:30PM
Tehching Hsieh
Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 6:00 p.m.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 S. Columbus Dr.
Free admission
Born in Taiwan in 1950, Tehching Hsieh began work on his iconic series of One Year Performances starting in the late 1970s. Using long durations, making art and life simultaneous, Hsieh spent one year locked in a cage, one year punching a time clock every hour, one year completely outdoors, and one year tied to another person. For his final performance piece, Thirteen Year Plan, Hsieh intentionally retreated from the art world between 1986–99, setting a tone of sustained invisibility. Since 2000, having been released from the restriction of not showing his work during the 13-year period, Hsieh has exhibited and lectured in North and South America, Asia, and Europe, including major exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 2010 Hsieh was included in the Liverpool Biennial in the United Kingdom and the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea.
Image credit: Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1980-1981. Photograph by Michael Shen
© 1981 Tehching Hsieh
Courtesy the artist, The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit, and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
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