From October 16 to November 22, 2009. DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art presents DHC SESSION, a new compact autumn programming initiative including an exhibition, evening event series and in-gallery reading lounge and education project. It has an annually changing theme and features Canadian premieres of international artists.

The inaugural DHC SESSION exhibition, Living time, brings together selected documentation of renowned Taiwanese-American performance artist Tehching Hsieh’s One Year Performances and the films of young Dutch artist, Guido van der Werve. Both artists perform and document mundane activities such as walking, standing or following a schedule within constraints that question the human relationship with time and the nature of existence and survival.

Living time presents selected documentation works of Tehching Hsieh : One Year Performance 1980-1981 in which the artist, dressed in a pale grey worker uniform, punches a time clock every hour on the hour for one year and One Year Performance 1981-1982 which documents the artist spending a year living outside in New York City for one year. The documentation presented in Living time includes photographs, paper documentation and films.

Two films by Guido van der Werve are also included in the exhibition: nummer acht : everything is going to be alright (2007) in which the artist films himself walking slowly across the ice-covered Bothnian Gulf of Finland followed by an enormous icebreaker and nummer negen: the day I didn’t turn with the world (2007) where the artist, documented in time-lapse photography, stands on the North Pole for 24 hours turning against time.