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.…