Eamon O'Kane, Katie Holten, Paul Gregg, Brendan Earley, Darragh Hogan, Brian Kreydatus.
Eamon O'Kane's richly productive project AKA: After Kafka's Amerika has generated a profusion of art works in a range of media that includes painting, photography and video. Famously, Franz Kafka relied on secondary source material when writing his novel, Amerika, as he never actually visited the USA. In keeping with this preference for imaginative projection over recorded experience AKA, the video is prefaced by a cautionary epigraph from the critic Jonathan Culler: 'Things are never expected to be real; rather things are read as signs of themselves, idealized and often frustrated.'
Caoimhin MacGiolla Leith, catalogue essay.