Tehching Hsieh is renowned for a series of works that revolutionised the conceptual, physical, aesthetic, and temporal limits of performance art. His body of work includes six performances that the artist defines as his ‘lifeworks’. For Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival 2025, Hsieh will participate in three moderated discussions held at the same time on three consecutive days. Each talk will be accompanied by images and clips and will focus on two of his ‘lifeworks’, all of which are held in the M+ Collection.

On Sunday, 1 June, Hsieh will discuss his final two ‘lifeworks’: One Year Performance 1985–1986 (No Art Piece) and Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen Year Plan).

In No Art Piece, Hsieh refrained from seeing, talking about, or reading about art for an entire year, effectively challenging the very definition of what constitutes art.

For his final work, Thirteen Year Plan, Hsieh made a pact to create art without showing it from 1986 to 1999.  Subsequently, on 1 January 2000, he pledged never to create art again.

This final discussion with Hsieh, for Tehching Hsieh’s Lifeworks—No Art Piece and Thirteen Year Plan, will be moderated by Ulanda Blair, M+ Curator of Moving Image. The conversation will take place in English.