Michael O’Pray profiles Tina Keane’s career so far for Performance Magazine, 1988.pdf here. …
Clapping Songs
Installations on Video, Lecture 1974-90
Unfinished Work mid 1980s
Out of Sink
Tir Na Nog
“Much of my work is based on Celtic culture. I consider it important to be aware of one’s cultural heritage in order to provide a sound foundation for coping with life in a society that continually swamps one with new influences and concepts. Early Celtic art and science was very concerned with the elemental forces of radiant energy and magnetism – the same energies that make up the video image. Tir Na Nog is one of the mysterious ‘Isles of the Blest’ …
Flow
Drift
Plus / Minus Performance (1982)
The Diver
vide0voidTexT
“The video surfs on the interface between sense/nonsense. The point of departure is the space between an unsynchronized signal. From here it produces itself through the mirror effect of self-reflection. The ‘Deadline’ takes its last breath, which is just enough for the transit of a floating significant. Through their conscious use, the ‘void’ of such phenomena as drop-outs and misguided chromonance signals suddenly turns into an image ‘texture’ that constitutes meaning. Out of the hiss of false information – …