Time Clock Piece (One Year Performance)
> Tehching Hsieh 1980 – 1981 Courtesy of the artist. Time Clock Piece or One Year Performance 1980–1981 is a durational performance. For one year, Tehching Hsieh punched timecards once per hour, every hour, on the hour. The performance was documented with a 16mm film camera, positioned in front of Hsieh, producing 24 stills per […]
In Search of the Miraculous
> Bas Jan Ader 1975 Courtesy of the Herbert Foundation. In 1975, as part of an art performance titled In Search of the Miraculous, Bas Jan Ader attempted a single-handed West-East crossing of the Atlantic in a 13 ft boat, a modified Guppy 13 named ‘Ocean Wave’. Radio contact broke off three weeks into the […]
Liquid Time
> Camille Utterback 2001 – 2002 Courtesy of the artist. The Liquid Time Series explores how the concept of ‘point of view’ is predicated on embodied existence. Initially, the piece was an attempt to create an interactive installation where users’ physical positions in the gallery (tracked by an overhead camera) controlled different ‘perspectives’ in a […]