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In July 1983, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh embarked on a collaborative performance piece: for one year they would be bound together by an eight-foot rope, unable to touch each other. They would go about their days, eating, sleeping, making art, irrevocably tied together and yet separated. At the end of summer of 1984, one whole year later, the seal between them “was still complete, intact, and unbroken.” In an interview toward the last few months of the performance, Hsieh explained his inspiration for the piece: “To survive we are all tied up. We cannot go in life alone, without people. Because we are individual we each have this own idea of something we want to do. But we’re together. So we become each others’ cage. We struggle because everyone wants to feel freedom.” He went on to remark, “We had a lot of fights and I don’t feel that is negative… This piece is about being like an animal, naked. We cannot hide our negative sides. We cannot be shy. It’s more than just honesty—we sh

Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh in 1983 In July 1983, Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh embarked on a collaborative performance piece: for one year they would be bound together by an eight-foot rope, unable to touch each other. They would go about their days, eating, sleeping, making art, irrevocably tied together and yet separated. At the end of summer of 1984, one whole year later, the seal between them “was still complete, intact, and unbroken.” In an interview toward the last few months of the performance, Hsieh explained his inspiration for the piece: “To survive we are all tied up.…

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