The performance artist made himself punch a clock every hour for a year,in a work now recognised as seminal
Tehching Hsieh gazes down from four walls, his unsmiling features captured in 8627 mugshots taken in the Manhattan studio where he spent 12 months punching a time clock every hour, and on the hour,24 hours a day.
The photographs chronicle a period during which the Taiwanese-born performance artist subjected himself to an extraordinary ordeal of sleep deprivation in a relentless quest to investigate the nature of time and methodically observe time’s passing.
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Source: theguardian.com