An exhibt at the Museum of Modern Art in New York is dedicated to the artist Teching Hsieh. He was an illegal alien who channeled the alienation he felt into art.
So in 1978 he built a cage inside a loft to live in for a year. He shut himself up, and did not allow himself to do anything: read, write, listen to music, or watch televison for a year. He spent most of his time thinking. 
His cage is on display in the Modern Art Museum. This is not his only performace art piece. He also chained himself to a female artist for a year, he spent a year punching a time clock hourly, and also spent a year on the streets. 
Each day he drew a line in the wall with his fingernail.
Hsieh is inspiring to me because he is able to channel his feelings of alienation into his art. He feeds off these emotions and channels them straight into his art.
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