Teh ching hsieh biography
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Tehching Hsieh was born in in Nan-Chou, Taiwan. Hsieh dropped out from high school in and took up painting. After finished compulsory military service ( – 73), Hsieh had his first solo show at the gallery of the American News Bureau in Taiwan. Shortly after this he stopped painting entirely and began making a series of works dealing with action and its serial traces in documents, culminating in Jump, a work in which he recorded his fall from a second story window, breaking both of his ankles. Hsieh trained as a seaman, working on oil tankers, which he then used as a means to enter the United States in July He was an undocumented worker in the States for fourteen years until he was granted amnesty and citizenship in
Starting in the late s, Hsieh made a series of five extraordinary One Year Performances. In the unfolding series of these projects Hsieh moved from a year of solitary confinement in a cage without any communication; to a year in which he punched a wo
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Tehching Hsieh was born in in Nan-Chou, Taiwan. His father, Ching Hsieh, was an atheist and his mother, Su-Choung Hong, a devoted Christian. Hsieh dropped out of high school in and took up painting. After finishing his army service (), Hsieh had his first solo show at the gallery of the American News Bureau in Taiwan. Shortly after this show, he stopped painting. In , Hsieh made a performance action, Jump Piece, in which he broke both of his ankles. He was trained as a sailor, which he then used as a means to enter the United States. In July of , Hsieh arrived at the port of a small town by the Delaware River near Philadelphia. He was an brottsligt immigrant for fourteen years until he was granted amnesty in the US in
Beginning in the late s, Hsieh made five One Year Performances and a Thirteen-year Plan, inside and outside his studio in New York City. Using long durations of time as context for the work, making art and life
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Tehching Hsieh
Taiwanese artist
Tehching Hsieh | |
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| Born | () December 31, (age&#;74) Nanzhou, Pingtung, Taiwan |
| Occupation | Performance artist |
| Known&#;for | Performance arts |
Sam Hsieh Teh-ching (Chinese: 謝德慶; born December 31, ),[1] known professionally as Tehching Hsieh, is a Taiwanese-born performance artist. He has been called a "master" by fellow performance artist Marina Abramović.[2]
Early life
[edit]Born in Nanzhou, Hsieh was one of 15 children from a family in southern Taiwan. He dropped out from high school and started creating paintings; he went on to create several performance pieces after finishing his three years of compulsory military service in Taiwan. In , he jumped ship onto a pier on the Delaware River, near Philadelphia,[3] and made his way to New York City, working as a dishwasher and cleaner during his first four years there.
Career
[edit]From to , Hsieh accomplished five One Year Performances; f