Imagine agreeing to spend an entire year literally tied to someone at the waist with an eight-foot rope, but adding the ultimate relationship test: “No touching allowed.” That’s exactly what performance artists Linda Montano and Tehching Hsieh did back in 1983, turning everyday life into the world’s longest, most awkward game of “the floor is lava—but make it emotional.” They showered with one waiting outside, slept in separate beds, and eventually devolved into grunting cave-people who settled arguments by yanking the rope like two toddlers fighting over a toy. By the end, they barely spoke, yet somehow survived 365 days of forced proximity without committing mutual homicide. Truly the original “situationship” from hell.
Man and woman tied themselves together for entire year with no escape to see what would happen
