An online conversation with performance artist Tehching Hsieh, writer Amelia Groom, and writer and curator Adrian Heathfield, moderated by BAK curator of public practice Rachael Rakes on 20 January 2022. The conversation takes Hsieh\u2019s work as a starting point in addressing performative time, labor time, gaps, and rhythms of endurance, among other things.<\/p>\n
Hsieh\u2019s series of \u201cone year\u201d pieces, including Outdoor Piece <\/em>(1981\u20131982), Cage Piece <\/em>(1978\u20131979), and Time-Clock Piece <\/em>(1980\u20131981), each set up a different set of seemingly impossible time- and situation-based conditions for the artist to follow. Through their unfolding they demonstrate how personal experiences of time are strongly dependent on social and environmental conditions; they also give form to the passing of time through documentation of grueling endurance. Time-Clock Piece<\/em>, included in the exhibition No Linear Fucking Time <\/em>at BAK, is a six-minute video accompanied by a set of instructions that documents the artist\u2019s punching of a time-clock every hour, on the hour, for an entire year. Hsieh described his experience over the year as beyond exhaustion, one of constant anxiety and anticipation. It is hard not to see the prescience in this kind of \u201ctime keeping\u201d in terms of present-day globalized labor and logistical dynamics, from Amazon to Foxconn.<\/p>\n Groom writes, in an essay on this work: \u201cwhile the imposed mechanical structure of clock-time is perversely obeyed across an entire annual cycle, other temporal measures are completely disregarded. Diurnal rhythms of light and dark, as well as the body\u2019s circadian rhythms of healthy sleep patterns, are bypassed . . . so that Tehching\u2019s performance is one of being always right on time while also becoming totally out of synch with the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n In this online discussion Groom\u2014who is co-editor of this \u201cNo Linear Fucking Time\u201d focus of Prospections\u2014<\/em>and Heathfield\u2014who is a scholar, freethought <\/em>collective member, and the author of Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh <\/em>(2008)\u2014speak along with Hsieh, incorporating their own scholarship and critical work on linear and nonlinear time in performance, labor, and social life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Een online gesprek met performance kunstenaar Tehching Hsieh, schrijver Amelia Groom en schrijver en curator Adrian Heathfield, geleid door Rachael Rakes, BAK curator Public Practice, op 20 januari 2022. Het gesprek neemt Hsieh’s werk als uitgangspunt voor het bespreken van onder andere perfomatieve tijd, werktijd, gaten en ritmes van uithoudingsvermogen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":37069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"focus":[301],"prospection_category":[295,181],"class_list":["post-38716","prospection","type-prospection","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","focus-no-linear-fucking-time-nl","prospection_category-archief","prospection_category-video-nl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection\/38716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prospection"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection\/38716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38832,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection\/38716\/revisions\/38832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus?post=38716"},{"taxonomy":"prospection_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.bakonline.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prospection_category?post=38716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}