19 Facts About Tehching Hsieh

Sam Hsieh Teh-ching, known professionally as Tehching Hsieh, is a Taiwanese-born performance artist.

Tehching Hsieh has been called a "master" by fellow performance artist Marina Abramovic.

Tehching Hsieh 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.

Tehching Hsieh was supported financially by his mother and brother living in Taiwan.

From 1978 to 1986, Tehching Hsieh accomplished five One Year Performances; from 1986 to 1999, he worked on what he called his "Thirteen-Year Plan".

The exhibition, titled "Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh" and organized by Klaus Biesenbach, was the inaugural installation in a series of original performance pieces at the museum.

In 1973, Tehching Hsieh documented himself jumping out of a second-story window in Taiwan, and breaking both of his ankles on the concrete.

Tehching Hsieh is most known for six durational performance pieces completed between 1978 and 2000.

For one year, from 11 April 1980 through 11 April 1981, Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour.

Tehching Hsieh shaved his head before the piece, so his growing hair reflects the passage of time.

Tehching Hsieh did not enter buildings or shelter of any sort, including cars, trains, airplanes, boats, or tents, with one exception: he was arrested and brought into the police station for a total of 15 hours.

Tehching Hsieh spent the year moving around New York City with a backpack and a sleeping bag.

Subsequently, in a 2009 interview, Tehching Hsieh stated he was 'a little angry' with how he considered Montano to have ' that piece and made it hers.

Tehching Hsieh is in the foreground and I am in the background.

Tehching Hsieh says it is the critics that make it that way.

Tehching Hsieh's pieces are not feats of stamina nor consciously motivated by a desire to suffer, but rather are explorations of time and of struggle.

Tehching Hsieh has continued to give interviews to an art audience.

Tehching Hsieh has expressed that he likes the work of Praxis.

Tehching Hsieh told Vice magazine that he was inspired by Hsieh's work.