Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece)
This year is a Liverpool Biennial year, and the International 10 show at FACT will make it well worth a visit. Presenting new commissions from artists including Yves Netzhammer and Minouk Lim, Touched will consist of new work that affects the viewer deep down: “art that moves us in mind, body and soul”.
Pedantic-iti-ness aside – (Isn’t that what art exhibitions should be doing anyway?) – the line-up looks a treat. Focusing on works that examine ideas around separation and loss the show seeks to explore how, when more and more of us live urban lives dispersed across cities and overseas, do we learn new virtualised ways to be touched and touch?
A highlight will be Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece), presented in the acclaimed artists’ first European exhibition. The film documents the artist’s project of punching a worker’s time clock in his New York studio on the hour, every hour for a whole year, capturing a single frame of 16mm of himself in the act each time.
The 6th Liverpool Biennial runs from 18 September to 28 November
