One Year Performance 1978–1979 Catherine GUESDE le statut de graphiste-auteur

le statut de graphiste-auteur

elle continue de chercher à percer le secret de l’art d’aimer

en fin de compte

la pratique de la sieste dans une couchette spécialement conçue à cet effet

it touches upon broader questions of cultural difference

One Year Performance 1978–1979 Catherine GUESDE le statut de graphiste-auteurOn 30 September 1978, Tehching Hsieh began the first in a series of extraordinary One Year Performances that would make him a regular name in the New York art scene. He sealed himself in a purpose built cage in his studio and remained there in solitary confinement without any communication for 365 days. His friend, Cheng Wei Kuong, helped facilitate the work by taking care of his food, clothing and refuse, and by taking the daily portraits that make