In chapter four of Ways of Looking, Ossian Ward says that some contemporary artists make art out of human performances, including eccentric performances like punching a time clock every hour for a year. Are these really works of art? Can they be good art? We discuss these questions while examining Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performance 1980-1981 and Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present (2010). (Intro: Traveling in Your Mind (edited) by Loyalty Freak Music, from The Free Music Archive, CC0 1.0 Universal License. Outro: I am Rich (edited) by Naran, from The Free Music Archive, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE license.)
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