Art of Tino Sehgal

I hadn't heard of Tino Sehgal, till I read about his art on display at the art fair, Frieze New York, in Randall Island.

Sehgal's identity is mind-bogglingly hybrid, but there is a little bit of the Indian in him, buried under the palimpsest of the British and the German.

His art is even more eclectic: Sehgal says his art comes off "constructed situations," where people perform instructions conceived by the artist.

Here for instance, is an art named "These Associations," where a bunch of people run through the length and breadth of turbine hall in London's Tate Modern:

Spectacularum: Perspective on Contemporary Art, discusses the work and it's layered meaning indepthly.