Time Clock Piece One Year Performance 19801981 (1981)

For one year Tehching Hsieh punched a workers time clock located in his studio on the hour every hour Marking the occasion by taking a selfportrait on a single frame of 16mm film the resulting reel documents a year in his life at approximately one second per day a pace that is polar opposite of the enduring length of the original performance The punch cards witnessed by a third party for authenticity and other ephemera document Hsiehs life restructured around this highly repetitive task