The Artist Who Lived in a Cage For a Year - The New York Times

At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. Credit... Supported by By Julia Halperin Visuals by Marcus Maddox Reporting from Beacon, N.Y. “This is home,” the artist Tehching Hsieh proclaimed proudly. He was sitting on the edge of a discolored mattress inside a 9-by-11.5-foot cage. He occupied this tiny space from Sept. 30, 1978, to Sept. 30, 1979, as part of a performance artwork that has become the stuff of legend. He did not talk, read, write, listen to the radio or leave the enclosure for one year. Almost five decades later, Hsieh cheerfully offered a reporter a tour of the cage, which he was reassembling in the basement of Dia Beacon, a factory turned museum in the Hudson Valley of New York. It is a c

At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen. Credit... Supported by By Julia Halperin Visuals by Marcus Maddox Reporting from Beacon, N.Y. “This is home,” the artist Tehching Hsieh proclaimed proudly. He was sitting on the edge of a discolored mattress inside a 9-by-11.5-foot cage. He occupied this tiny space from