As part of the exhibition opening of "One Year Performance 1980-1981 (Time Clock Piece)" by Tehching Hsieh, there will be a conversation between the artist and Klaus Biesenbach.
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Tehching Hsieh, One Yeaaormance 1980–1981, Detail
Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1980–1981, Detail
Klaus Biesenbach, Direktor der Neuen Nationalgalerie Berlin
For one year, the artist stamped a time card on the hour. In parallel, he took a self-portrait, resulting in 24 still images per day and a total of 8760 in one year. The still images were compressed into a six-minute time-lapse film, which visually reveals the relationship between the culturally constructed clock and the duration of a lived experience.
Born in 1950 in Nanzhou, Pingtung, Taiwan, Tehching Hsieh became internationally known in the late 1970s and early 1980s primarily for his long-term performances, each lasting a year. The installation "Time Clock Piece" was shown at the Guggenheim New York (2009) - in parallel MoMA presented Hsieh's "Cage Piece" -, the Tate Modern (2017) and other institutions worldwide and now comes to Germany for the first time.
Klaus Biesenbach, born in 1966 in Bergisch Gladbach, is a German-American curator and museum director. Since 2022, he has been the director of the Neue Nationalgalerie with Museum Berggruen and the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection and the still-emerging Museum der Moderne in Berlin. Previously, he was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), chief curator at large at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, and director of the New York art gallery MoMA PS1.
The talk will be held in English.
There is no charge to attend the talk. Limited number of participants. Online registration recommended.
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