The Confrontational Body - Hsieh Tehching
Text: Guo Jau-Lan
On March 3, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum will at last retrospectively honor the overseas-Taiwanese artist Hsieh Tehching for his work since the 1970s in performance art that was a response to contemporary art in Taiwan -- with the “2012 Pilot Program: Hsieh Tehching’s Performance Art”, and the publication of the Taiwan edition of “Out of Now”.
In actually, Hsieh has only undertaken six public performance art works from the time he first arrived on the shores of the United States as a stowaway and illegal immigrant in 1974, until his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2009. His current work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum ought to be considered the beginning of Taiwanese re-reading of Hsieh’s performance art. Only, how should Taiwan approach this reading of Hsieh’s performance art?
Text: Guo Jau-Lan
On March 3, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum will at last retrospectively honor the overseas-Taiwanese artist Hsieh Tehching for his work since the 1970s in performance art that was a response to contemporary art in Taiwan -- with the “2012 Pilot Program: Hsieh Tehching’s Performance Art”, and the publication of the Taiwan edition of “Out of Now”.
In actually, Hsieh has only undertaken six public performance art works from the time he first arrived on the shores of the United States as a stowaway and illegal immigrant in 1974, until his exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2009. His current work at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum ought to be considered the beginning of Taiwanese re-reading of Hsieh’s performance art. Only, how should Taiwan approach this reading of Hsieh’s performance art?
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