“The kind of art I make is about how I understand the world,” says Hsieh. “It’s how I mark the passing of time. That’s all life is, and it’s the one thing that makes us all equal. It doesn’t matter if you’re lazy or hard-working, poor or rich, we’re all just passing time.”

He lived in a cage, jumped from a window and spent a year roped to a friend: is Tehching Hsieh the most extreme performance artist ever? | Art and design | The Guardian