LIVE TRANSMISSION: ATTENTION AND DRAWING AS TIME-BASED PERFORMANCE - ALAIN TOURAINE

Professeur, Cole des Hautes Tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
This text was originally published in The Act, Vol. 1 No. 2, New York, 1987
English translation: Touraine and O'Hara

MORGAN O'HARA, ARTIST OF SPACE AND TIME
Morgan O'Hara loves space and fears time. She discovers peoples' personalities by identifying the places in which they have lived, the spaces through which they have traveled. Isn't it a seaman's behavior, or at least the reaction of a sea captain's daughter, to look for her roots not in a land or a tradition but in a multiplicity of places: San Francisco, New York, Japan, Paris, Sweden, in which she spends parts of her life.

The space she constructs is wide open but centered. Her friends come and go on an earth oriented by a port to which they will return rather than a port as point of departure. Morgan represents men and women who at the same time need intimacy and discovery, who are both rooted and cosmopolitan. She carries in her soul and body the land and sea of Ireland as well as her tiny house on the cliff overlooking San Francisco Bay, while she discovers still more of herself in other parts of the world. She can live in Japanese or French as easily as in English. continue >>