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Meet Tehching Hsieh, the Taiwan-born artist who lived in a cage for a year
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Performance artist Tehching Hsieh at Dia Beacon museum in Beacon, New York, on July 31.
PHOTO: MARCUS MADDOX/NYTIMES
Julia Halperin
NEW YORK – “This is home,” artist Tehching Hsieh proclaimed proudly.
He was sitting on the edge of a discoloured mattress inside a 2.7m by 3.5m 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.
