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Tehching Hsieh talks to Jean Wainwright about two of his his one year performances. 1981-1982 in which he spent one year without entering a building, and 1982-1983 in which he spent one year attached to artist Linda Montano by a short length of rope.

Mark Lewis, still from Backstory, 2009

Artinfo is currently featuring a series of interviews by Sarah Douglas with artists and curators behind “some of the most discussed pavilions” of the 2009 Venice Biennale, including the Canadian Pavilion featuring the work of Mark Lewis. Listen HERE. Read Laura Mulvey’s article about Lewis in Modern Painters HERE.

Sonya Schönberger is a German artist whose stitches images are sourced from the news media.Schönberger also performs her work, stitching in the gallery. Below is an interview with the artist about her project during a performance this year at the exhibition Extreme Crafts in Vilnius, Lithuania. For the duration of the exhibition, Schönberger stitched imagery and text from a local newspaper.