Tehching Hsieh

In 1974, 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.

[7] The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York also showed one of his works the same year as part of its retrospective exhibition, "The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860–1989.

"[3] Curated by Adrian Heathfield, Taiwan's Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 featured Hsieh's work in an exhibition titled "Doing Time".

A lawyer, Robert Projansky, notarized the entire process and made sure the artist never left the cage during that one year.

His loftmate Cheng Wei Kuong came daily to deliver food, remove the artist's waste,[3] and take a single photograph to document the project.

In his 2013 list of the greatest performance art works, Dale Eisinger of Complex wrote that One Year Performance 1980–1981 (Time Clock Piece) "is thought to have bridged a gap between industry and art in a way particular to the individual that Warhol's grand factory pieces couldn't achieve.

He 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.

Both shaved their hair in the beginning of the year, and the performance was notarized initially by Paul Grassfield and later by Pauline Oliveros.

[3] Hsieh's pieces are not feats of stamina nor consciously motivated by a desire to suffer (although they have been described as ordeals),[15] but rather are explorations of time and of struggle.

[16] In 2014, Benjamin Bennett embarked on a series of live actions broadcast by streaming on the Web named Sitting and Smiling.

For each section he stares motionless in front of the camera for a period of four hours, twice a week without pause since the project started.