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Morgan O'Hara [USA] performance 18.00 installation exhibition Morgan O'Hara's childhood and early adolescence in an international community in post-war Japan early established close relationships between east and west, creation and destruction, life and art. Her work falls naturally into two parts: TIME STUDIES, which she has done on a daily basis since 1971 and time-space work: PORTRAITS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY and LIVE TRANSMISSIONS. The latter have resulted in many interdisciplinary collaborations. O'Hara's strong link to the international new music scene is evident in performances with Anthony Braxton in New York at the Knitting Factory and the Tri-Centric Foundation Festival and with the Work in Progress Ensemble in Berlin which performed musical compositions based on her drawings at the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin's Museum of Modern Art). The point of live contact between eye and subject and between pencil and paper is essential to her work. She performs with people of all walks of life, thereby shortening and perhaps dissolving the boundaries between art, criticism and life. For her work at trace: Morgan O'Hara will be investigating notions of the trace in relation to the body as flesh passing through time & space. |
