Check out this Tipperary exhibition before it ends this weekend

In his exhibition anarchive, at Source Arts Centre, Eamon O’Kane presents several of his art projects which explore the idea of the archive.

Utilising his own personal archives, wood, greenhouse, and photography he re-orders and re-defines the hierarchies that are normally accepted and intrinsic within these repositories of information.

Archives are usually a place where things are sorted, described, and hierarchized. This is where things are put into order as opposed to the disorder of reality.

The French philosopher Michel Foucault described the archive as an underlying structure which intended to control and systematise both things, knowledge, and people.

Later, the German historian Wolfgang Ernst wrote about the anarchive as a new, artistic version of the archive, where artists abuse the archive’s principles of order to create a new kind of order.

The Anarchive is thus not an anti-archive, but a different archive with different orders than the institutions' authoritative archives.

Exhibition ends Saturday October 14 at 5pm.