1 year performance video (aka samHsiehUpdate)
Mimicking Endurance: Who, Me?
“We shall seal images of ourselves in images of our studio, seemingly in solitary confinement inside seemingly identical images of cell-like rooms measuring 10ft x 10ft x 10ft. We seemingly shall not converse, listen to the radio or watch television, until–after you have viewed them for one year–we unseal our images…
“1 year performance video”, commissioned by Turbulence, continues MTAA’s series of Updates which resound seminal performance art from the 60s and 70s in part by replacing human processes with computer processes. For example, is there meaning in replacing On Kawara’s zen-like devotion to his date paintings with an automated script which functions in a similar way?
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