Tehching hsieh biography of mahatma

Summary of Tehching Hsieh

Taiwanese-born artist Tehching Hsieh's long-term and grueling physical meditations focused on the mere act of living as a form of art. Using his own existence as medium, through a slim collection of Performance works spread across two decades, he places the simple monotonous passage of time onto a pedestal as artist's muse.

His investigations into the most basic ennui of being alive have gained him a reputation of master in the durational and endurance art genres.

Accomplishments

• Hsieh's works present extreme glimpses of personal stamina against intense conditions such as boredom, loneliness, and lack of stimulation.

  Through these self-imposed situations of a forced repetitive present moment, his works represent the concept of "doing time."

• All but one of Hsieh's works have been practiced in solitude as he believes that isolation and aloneness are a good way to gain understanding about, and to respond to, the very essence of being.
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