On the occasion of the exhibition of Tehching Hsieh's Cage Piece, at MoMA, the Brooklyn-based Taiwanese performance artist is profiled by Deborah Sontag for the New York Times. Cage Piece was the first of Mr. Hsieh's one-year-long performance pieces. In 1978, four years after arriving in New York, the artist literally caged himself in a TriBeCa loft for a year without conversing, reading, writing, or watching television. This and his other major 'lifeworks' have been captured in a hefty 6-pound, 384-page long book soon to be released by MIT Press. Mr. Hsieh is currently married to his third wife, Qinqin Li, and lives with her in their loft in Clinton Hill. In his book, he declared that his life as an artist is over. Ironically, it is at a moment when he is just receiving recognition for his works. Through April 19, 2009, his time-clock piece will be featured at the Guggenheim, and the advocacy organisation, United States Artists, has recently awarded Mr. Hsieh a 50,000 grant.
 
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