The Insanity Artist
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The story of Tehching Hsieh, a performance artist who went to extreme places mentally for the sake of his art.
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The time card one is actually an amazing metaphor of the effect of tiring routines like work or school on the human psyche
Humans are slaves to routine
Immediately thought the same. Substitute an MS Teams notification or an email for the time clock and you've got the corporate experience.
Exactly, my favorite one he did
I really expected the narrator to point out this seemingly obvious allegory.
you antiwork motherfuckers I like my routines
I feel a bit sad for him. He wanted to show us the effects of time, mindless/endless routine, challenge, and strength. and for that, he sacrificed himself
I agree but I don't feel sad, I have huge respect and some empathy for him. I think he also shows us resolve and also how humans often create our own boundaries that create suffering but we still remain within those boundaries
He seems to have a very strong mental fortitude. Massive respect to him.
And the response was "tHiS sAyS a LoT aBoUt CaPiTaLiSm"
@@Mutantcy1992 No shit, regard.
@@zvz5823 well regards to you too sir
He's not only into art , he is also into pain.
man of many tastes eh hahaha
He’s a clown
thats because taiwan doesn't exist
More like into misery. Pain is a flat sensation. Misery is a whole foken 5D art piece unique for every person that experience it.
He is like the David Goggins of Art...
I'm starting to learn that art isn't something real that exists out there, it's in the eyes of the people that look at/for it. Hard thing to accept.
Yea art is a lot like spirituality, it's good to hear, see, be apart of but the ones that take it too seriously are kooks lol
@@alxeg4993 people having an above average interest in things ? ew cringe am i right ahAhaA
@@alxeg4993 i get what ya saying but taking anything seriously these days is seen as a negative, which is legit mind boggling to me
@@leuxdaprophet6204 you're right, lots of people view people taking anything they enjoy seriously as cringe. What I meant is take it seriously but with humility. Know you sound crazy to the average person but, of course there's nothing wrong with perceptions. The only things wrong are actions, so if you're calling people dumb/ignorant instead of attempting to teach them what you're seeing then you are to them, what they are to you. After that then they're stupid.
@@alxeg4993 respect your point of view bro real valid points
Honestly, probably the greatest artist of all time. Because it's simply not possible to be more dedicated or stronger-minded than him. He was a warrior and fought with everything he had for his pieces. I've only heard 13 minutes of infortmation of him and have studied many great artists, but already know this will be the most impressive artist I'll ever know of.
Noice, now u trow ur life away without having any fun like I dare you... LMAO 🤡😂
@@simonshura9144
I dare YOU, coward!
The goal of art is not to be strong minded. If anything, it is to be sensitive. It's not a contest.
Not to mention, there is an endless list of people who have self-immolated for art or politics. That's way more hardcore than this.
@@simonshura9144 Shut up.
That’s not was art is about. It isn’t a competition between who’s “stronger minded”. You should probably rethink how you judge artists.
this guy was a modern art version of an endurance artist. But a good one considering he's what some consider a modern art type of guy
I've been working a piece for around 28 years now, breathing 22000 times a day. It's my crowning achievement as an artist.
I'm also working on a very similar piece but I have been doing it for 29 years, you filthy casual.
I'm certain most your viewers (including me) would have never heard of him if it wasn't for your video. Nice coverage
Yuup
Amen
Totally. I never heard of this dude in my life or heard anyone mention him in my life time
So glad I ran into this video.
true. I appreciate Deburke for bringing him to a new audience. His story changed my view on time and life. It makes me want to explore my mental capabilities and break my own boundaries.
The coolest artist ever, the dedication he really lived his life CREATING ART, lived, breathed , sleep art ! Amazing.
Usually hate performance art but this was beautiful and inspiring
I've recently undergone my own revitalization as an artist. This was truly inspiring! Thank you so much for putting this video together. This may have honestly changed my life. Truly thank you.
Hey, it’s cool to be you. Don’t get lost in the sauce.
cringe
@@meettherandom4711 "Cringe" often use by those who can't handle the truth or their own feelings.
@@z.m7483 cringe is cringe, no point explaining to tin foil hat npcs
@Saint Lasagna cringe is extremely real but its not for double digit iqs
The discipline it must have taken to do that time clock piece is incredible. I hope he got time and a half for all that overtime.
Boi was running on triple time
Simply amazing. The will power alone is super impressive & the task he chose is insane.
I don't even have enough discipline to sit through this entire video.
You know what is the most insane thing about this guy? It's that he's still alive!
I love this quite a lot. His art to me sums up to existentialism. Being able to, capable of existing. Existentialism is in direct correlation with time. If you have time, you exist. If you have no time, you do not exist. You are able. He was able.
This is so beautifully put
this is so deep
@@netsaosa4973 its not that deep really
Wow. Just wow. I don't even have words to describe this. Just thinking about spending a whole year without being able to talk to the people I love and care about... This is truly the definition of art
Or insanity
Not sure if this art is anything Except self torture? Like why fuck your body up for like no real payoff? To say "I did it? I mean ok but damn
@@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529 Exactly, people in the comments are praising him like a god lol
@@htg41 yeah, some called him "hero" which made me gringe like hell 😬
Or postmodern garbage. Strong Maria Abramovich/ GG Allin "HEY, LOOK AT ME!" vibes...
I wonder how he was able to do the time piece? Like who supplied the clock and let him chill there for a year? What a masterpiece and a genius. Amazing
This is very interesting. I've never heard of the guy but can relate. In 2015 I decided to do ten kickflips on my skateboard each day for the entire year while taking video of each one. Despite various weather conditions, lots of soreness, broken skateboards, and even some other personal dilemmas, I managed to complete the challenge. There was absolutely no reason to do it other than simply wanting to. The best part was all the skating I did after the daily kickflips. Looking at what this guy in the video did I feel like I got off easy.
Not sure how this showed up on my feed, but I'm glad it did. What an interesting person. His work begs a lot of questions and is truly fascinating.
"I can only imagine the mental fatigue-" Nah bro. This is some kind of ascended being. He's not performing magic, but he's as dedicated to his craft as someone like David Blaine. To get used to some of the things he put himself through is not something I would want to do.
Yes, I think some of the art in of itself was the approach and mindset he would develop for himself to accept his own ruleset as an unquestionable routine.
I would love to know what he thought about all the time he had to himself during those performances. Do we hit a point where we stop thinking? Or do we spiral deeper into our own egos?
the punch in clock one is absolutely amazing, i always thought if there was someone who would dedicate a year of their life to Art or a performance as such. Glad I finally watched this vid, ty for sharing.
The way he got to America is one of the most badass things I've ever heard.
I'm reminded in a way of Henry Darger the Chicago artist (writer, collagist, painter, principally known for his most famous creation, The Vivian Girls). Even though their mode of expression was _quite_ different, both were as committed to their art as they were to breathing, and neither seemed to care a jot for fame or recognition; in fact Darger's work might have been lost to the world _entirely,_ had his landlord not realised it's importance when he discovered the huge body of work in Darger's flat around the time of his death. Darger's work, much of it revolving around an epic saga of children rebelling against their enslavement, in a fantastic version of Earth which is all the more unsettling for its (and _his_ ) apparent innocence. His work is today celebrated as perhaps a quintessential example of 'outsider art', and examples of his work change hands for six figure sums on the rare occasions that they come up for auction. Both artists eschewed publicity, Sam Tsieh seemingly satisfied that his work simply be _witnessed_ in order to be validated; in his later work, it would seem, he came to see even _this_ as an unnecessarily bourgeois and self - indulgent quality!
Love this guy. My life completely fell apart a few years ago. Have turned into a shell of the man I used to be, and my ability to care is gone. Last year I challenged myself to walk for 24 hours straight. The hardest part lies in its simplicity. Just keep moving. After hour 12 I was crying, but after hour 20, I felt no pain.
How did you find life after your challenge?
This man’s life is like trying to understand the phrase “a watched pot never boils” and then putting that theory to the test over and over again in any conceivable circumstances possible 😂😂😂😂 I don’t know whether to be impressed or confused
I don't even have words to describe how I feel about this
I think this guy might be my favourite artist now
So then you described how you feel then.
when "THE ROPE PIECE" appeared on the screen I was like "oh shit he actually did it"
Very interesting story here man. Great job. Never heard of this guy before.
ultimate chad jumps off building and refuses to elaborate
24 hours a day, 365 days a year is 8760 punch-ins. 8760 divided by the typical office working schedule of 220 days is 40 years.
He punched in enough times to last a whole lifetime of work.
Ironically, by "wasting" all that time, he accomplished so much more than most of us do. Too much freedom can be debilitating. Restriction is a a really important influence on creativity. I've made some of my best poetry by cutting words out of magazines.
Bro is playing the long game his hidden art is going to be worth millions when they’re released.
Life does feel like a life sentence. Highly relatable guy
his commitment is unmatched!
This isn't art, this is philosophy... Better than a book.
So...... it's art ? 😂
I view this as mental illness rather than art or philosophy
I love that his fifth 1-year project sounds like a cheeky excuse to not subject himself to torture for a year while still calling it "art".
Except for someone like him not being allowed to create probably is torture
@@chompers11 Create what exactly? The guy just tortured himself for no reason. I don't see how that can be named art.
This guy's a freaking legend
The vault of unseen art could be a piece in itself!? The mystery! The secrets! The curiosity, the passing time in which it remains unseen
He was literally doing challenge runs irl
loved the outdoors% and the rope% runs
It was the 0% run that was the most odd, to me...
The most consistent person I’ve ever heard of
truly. Painfully. beautiful
This is the shit I want to do. Really dive into deep metaphors and ideas through art, my choice of medium. It's people like Tehching Hsieh that make me so fucking inspired and awed.
The mental strength of this man is unimaginable.
Imagine being arrested for not having a home… Strange world we live in
Crapitalism 💩
Punching in on a time clock every hour for a year is absolutely mind blowing
Tbh the no sleep for a year thing isn't that crazy, I've done that easily for 3 years off meth
Yeah that would do it if nothing else
Should’ve had a clock with you then
Yea you cheated tho. Do it without meth.
i never heard of this guy, but i think he is the shit. thanks for making us aware of him. great video man..
Turning self-harm into a career. 👍
Really interesting, for real. When he did the prison piece I automatically thought about his three years of mandatory military service.
I have good reason to believe that the military inflicts a kind of Stockholme Syndrome on those who serve it. It's a horrible, grueling experience, yet people miss it when they leave it.
I have a school project for performance art, I don't wanna be this guy
Man is insane. Gotta be a bit disturbed to be a true artist. Great video.
@TextualPredator™ get yo ass out of here,oh lord of bozos
This was the realest, saddest, most inspiring thing I have ever seen! Sam ❤️
This lad makes David Blaine look like an amateur. :)
What discipline… With this fortitude he probably could have accomplish anything… This is amazing.
Insane and absolutely awesome/gruesome. I do not know what to feel about the time clock piece. The commitment is beyond everything I can imagine. Thanks for this video, otherwise I would have never heard of Tehching Hsieh.
Massive respect to this man. If only youtube was alive in his time doing this, He could have been appreciated by the entire world and probably bigger than Mr Beast.
Looking at the overall theme of these pieces, I get the impression one of his unreleased works involved sitting in front of a television for some ungodly amount of time.
Jeez... I go insane after 3-4 nights+days..
I never made it past 3-5 days/nights, I forgot what my record was, but I would be hallucinating so hard, and I literally felt like I might pass out at any moment while standing at times.
24 hours is already exhausting to me. Circa 38 hours was my record, if I remember right.
i did it so regularly and often on meth i now no longer can do more than 24 hrs comfortably, sucks
@@stella-vu8vh The older I get, the less I can stay awake.. my limit for hearing voices and seeing things is 48h now.. insomnia is a b..
This one's my favorite, and I've watched a few.
Thanks!
I feel like he might've been a big influence for David Blaine as well as many artists. Tehching Hsieh body of art is mind blowing..
Dying for your art is the ultimate act and can never be beaten.
When he took a whole year off after putting himself through all that in like YAS ART KING fucking a what an icon, a legend.
Creating, devoting, and accomplishing was his practice of philosophy and meditation
Discipline, sacrifice, this is art
I didn’t think the video I chose to wash my dishes to would give me a better pulpos on life. Great video🔥
the cage piece reminds me so much of my year of rest and relaxation.... it's almost the same concept
Scientists should of teamed up with this guy.
"My name is Sam and this is my New York restricted Ultimate Iron Man"
love when ppl make the most quiet video possible
This guy was doing challenge runs way before it was popular.
This is one of the most fascinating stuff I've ever heard. Kudos to him, he's incredible
going from genius intellect in art to I STAYED IN WALMART FOR 24 HOURS
This dude is a magician he created works for 13 years then never showed them. How do we know they even exist???😳😳😳🤔🤔🤔
I have lived over 40 years without producing any art, talking about art or ever visiting an art gallery
*BEHOLD MY 40 YEAR NO ART PIECE*
I can only imagine the insights he had gained during the isolation experiments.
His performance art was living the lives of others. We know how painful and torturous this was for him due to the documentation - we have empathy because we see his pain. Others live these lives everyday with little to no evidence, then die. They will never speak of this. Use the lessons this man has taught you to understand how so many experiences like this will simply end in nothing - and that there is also nothing you can do about it but accept the passage of time.
That kind of performance "Art" is just so pretentious that I actually recoil.
He was just like all these dumb TH-camrs and Instagramers doing "challenges" to go viral but there was no internet back then.
This dude wanted to go on talk shows and preach SJW nonsense or to be written about.
He's real lucky tide pods hadn't been invented yet or we probably would have seen the
"Attempting to eat 1 tide pod per meal for a year challange (100% real)"
I have never had much respect for performance art, and this only cements that feeling.
It wasn't to suffer, maybe it was to heal. The pain you willingly go through can be less painful than the pain that s imposed to you. It "distracts" you from your real pain for a moment, so meantime you suffer less. He dont need to explain because he does it for him and nobody else.
The waiting for every hr is like showing what life is in a yr
I can't believe that people believe he did this, think about how long a year is. With no sleep. The record is 11 days. This guy says he did that 36 times in a row. Humans can't survive in without PROPER sleep, REM sleep, you can't get that in 1 hour sessions.
The man was quite literally built different. I wonder what his brain would look like compared to a regular persons’ after the piece was finished, surely there would be some serious differences
Your body will eventually force you into REM sleep after a certain amount of time. It's not like if you're interrupted right before REM your body needs to go through all of the stages again. And also how would you explain his hair growth throughout the piece?
As an introvert, the rope piece horrifies me to no end.
if he did this in the early 2000s he’d be the biggest youtuber today
It's really sad that everybody let this man think that he's an artist and he wasn't able to get the mental health resources that he needed. The exploitation of the NYC culture industry truly knows no limits.
I always show this guy to my students. Fantastic artist
Absolutely chilling. This kind of art speaks to the common man on a spiritual level.
LOL. Any man who hasn't realised already that time and existence is finite is no way near "spiritual". You're 12, come off TH-cam and stop trying to sound smart
“Most of my life was waiting for the next hour”
I respect his patience but not his execution. He’s a glutton for punishment. Great video and thanks for opening my eyes to him.
So he WAS sleeping in between pictures, and you click baited us? Another channel blocked
So extra lol.
This guy proved he could defeat the system.
His commitment to his work is remarkable. I'd give up in six hours or less if I had to do the punch-clock project myself. This guy did it for a whole YEAR.
I don't care what people say about him. The fact that a human being was able to put himself in year-long scenarios that the average person would find unimaginably torturous says a lot about his tremendous willpower.
Everyday I wake up and fart loudly it’s the start to my magnum opus project about the theory of space time
I think i get it. I've never allowed my inner city, no money having ass to see value in art thrown at a wall from a paint bucket. But this makes sense. Its one of those things that won't make sense in the moment but when his life is over, you can see the beauty of it all in hindsight. Its kinda like life. For the greater majority of us, no matter how bad life gets, we always look back and see the beauty of it all.
Bro would go crazy in a mr beast vid
hes like an internet clout chaser but before the internet
He makes Mr. Beast challanges look like a walk in the park.
The punch card price is so incredibly powerful to me
The time and effort some people can put into things that ultimately are completely pointless is hilarious lol.
very interesting that a judge gave him a pass because he was performing an (admittedly very interesting) art project, but people who have no choice but to be "vagrants" are dealt no mercy whatsoever
Thinking the same. Like it was his own fault and choice being there. Homeless just have to.
Next time I do nothing for a year I will tell my wife it was for a performance art piece.
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