On September 11, 1978, Tehching Hsieh locked himself in a cell. A room measuring 3.5 by 2.7 metres, built with his own hands in his New York studio. No books, no music, no television, no conversation. A bed, a sink,…
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Bob Flanagan, Living His Pain as a Work of Art
Bob Flanagan was born in 1952 with cystic fibrosis. At the time, children with this disease generally did not survive past adolescence. Flanagan lived to be 43. It was not a medical miracle… it was, according to him, a decision.…
Constraint of the Week: The Album in the Dark
The Album in the Dark, Constraint #63 Choose an album you love. Turn everything off. Lie down. Listen to it in full, without interruption, to the last track. Reference artist(s): Nan Goldin. The protocol Choose an album… not a playlist,…
Some Artists Who Inspired OuViePo’s Constraints
OuViePo’s constraints are not invented ex nihilo. Each one is linked to an actual artistic practice, a documented gesture, a work that showed it was possible. Here are some of the artists who made all of this imaginable. It all…