• Artworks that Clock Working Life

    …topic is not compromised. Walking into the space, one is immediately faced with a simple but powerful installation dedicated to Tehching Hsieh’s masterful performances, including photo documentation of four of…

  • Recording Artist

    …Harrison’s chief inspirations was a Taiwanese extreme performance artist called Tehching Hsieh, whose self appointed ordeals over the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s included filming himself for one second on the…

  • This is Ellie Harrison

    …to me who I have a huge amount of respect for. Firstly Tehching Hsieh – in 1980, he photographed himself, in his studio, every hour for a year. He could…

  • Profile: Ellie Harrison

    …of whether anyone wants it. There’s a drive that makes you work, work, work. Most influential artist? Tehching Hsieh is the most amazing artist I know. His current project is…

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Logger

    …the background noise, the habitual?” Who/what influences your work? My biggest artistic influences are artists such as Tehching Hsieh and On Kawara who have both undertaken their own life long…

  • The Glasgow Effect

    Film by Stuart Platt Q&A chaired by Peter McCaughey Thanks to Peter McCaughey, Michelle Emery-Barker, Janie Nicoll & Jenny Brownrigg Ushering by Margaret McInnes, Sheena Maclean, Katherine Matthews & Ellie…

  • Loving the Inbox: the Artist as Bureaucrat

    …might look back to lone workers, like Tehching Hsieh punching-in to a clock-card machine in his own apartment on the hour, every hour, for his One Year Performance in New…

  • The Glasgow Effect

    …being in the tradition of durational performance as exemplified by Tehching Hsieh, who would perform year-long pieces making incredible physical demands on himself, such as photographing himself every hour over…

  • Transmediale Festival’s 2015 Exhibitions Bring Artist Labour and Bodies into Focus

    …pioneering piece by Taiwanese artist Teching Hsieh, One Year Performances 1978-1986, including the durational Time Clock Piece daily selfie. Oliver Walker showed One Euro (2014), a multi-channel video that documents…