Live Transmission/Performative Drawing

Morgan O'Hara's childhood took place in post-war Japan. Her practice researches the vital movement of living beings through Live Transmission, a drawing process she invented in 1982. O'Hara met John Cage as a twenty-year-old art student in Los Angeles, and his thinking, writings, and music have strongly influenced her practice. Her drawings are done as duets in international performance art festivals and commissioned as site-specific wall drawings. They are in the permanent collections of museums and art institutions in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. O'Hara teaches master classes in drawing and the psychology of creativity. She lives in New York and works internationally.