Description
This Book/DVD offer combines two essential materials for anyone interested in Tehching Hsieh’s life and work.
For the special price of £50, Out of Now – the first major critical publication on Hsieh – can be purchased along with One Year Performance Art Documents 1978-1999, a DVD that documents the artist’s seminal ‘One Year Performance’ projects.
Book:
Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh
Out of Now is the first major publication on the extraordinary and influential Taiwanese-American artist Tehching Hsieh. In the vibrant Manhattan art scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, Tehching Hsieh made an exceptional series of artworks: five separate one-year-long performances that were unprecedented in their use of physical difficulty over extreme durations and in their absolute conception of art and life as simultaneous processes. Out of Now is the first extensive critical account of these remarkable works. Adrian Heathfield’s astute meditation is complemented by an intensive exchange with the artist and a set of letters from leading art theorists Peggy Phelan and Carol Becker, and the internationally acclaimed artists Marina Abramovic, Santiago Sierra, and Tim Etchells.
Live Art Development Agency and The MIT Press, 2009, 384 pages, 173 colour and 140 black and white photographs throughout, 24.5cm x 32cm.
ISBN 978-0262012553
DVD:
Tehching Hsieh: One Year Performance Art Documents 1978-1999
‘A DVD documenting Tehching Hsieh’s five ‘One Year Performances’ done between 1978 and 1986 and ‘Earth’, a thirteen-year performance between 1986 and 1999.
Accompanying text by Steven Shaviro.
Tehching Hsieh, 2000, DVD-ROM.
Please note this DVD is a DVD ROM and will not play on many newer computers or DVD players. If you want to play this disc please ensure that you have access to a Mac that runs Power PC applications or a PC that runs Windows XP or earlier versions (95/98)
