Exhibition moves into final week in Tipperary

In his exhibition 'anarchive' at Source Arts Centre in Thurles 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 systematize 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.

Eamon O'Kane was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and lives in Denmark and Norway. He has received various awards including the Taylor Art Award and a Fulbright Award and has had exhibitions in international galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Sheldon Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. O'Kane is Professor of Visual Art at The Art Academy, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Norway.

Gallery Open: Tuesday to Friday; 10am to 5pm & Saturday; 2pm to 5pm. Exhibition ends Saturday 14th October at 5pm.