Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance, 1981–82 (Outdoor Piece), 1981–82. Performance view, New York, 1981–82. Photo: Tehching Hsieh.
Curated by Humberto Moro and Adrian Heathfield with Liv Cuniberti
The five yearlong durational performance works that Taiwanese American artist Tehching Hsieh made in the 1970s and ’80s are among the most radical deconstructions of the art-life boundary ever attempted. Dia Beacon is taking up the challenge of presenting them (together for the first time; two have never before been exhibited) in the artist’s first-ever retrospective, which also will present Hsieh’s early works and his enigmatic final project, Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen Year Plan)—an artwork in which he made works but did not exhibit them.
