Documentation of the following performances have been added to vimeo, you can access them here.
Close/d, 2000, Trace
Wet Cup, 2001, Kannonhalle
Succour, 2002, Break 2.1, Ljubljana
Kira O’Reilly Untitled (Bodies)
Documentation of the following performances have been added to vimeo, you can access them here.
Close/d, 2000, Trace
Wet Cup, 2001, Kannonhalle
Succour, 2002, Break 2.1, Ljubljana
Mad House mark moving into their own dedicated performance space at Teurastamo in Helsinki with a full autumn programme of works. Their intention is to programme works thoughout the year, ‘settling into a permanent place will offer a sustainable creative environment for artists, audiences and the Mad House organization.’
I will be one of the artists presenting a work for their inaugural season, a reworking of What if this were the only world she knew?
Photo by Sohan Ariel Hayes, for Unhallowed Arts, Perth, 2018
Curated by SymbioticA
The iteration of this work will be in a vastly different context and space to that presented last year in Perth (as seen in the photograph), however it will share elements and approaches of working with the spaces material reality, it’s confines and it’s context.
As remaking the work for Mad House develops I will share notes and images on my blog here on this website and my on instagram account @untitledbodies
My thanks to Mad House for this very welcome and rare opportunity to present my work in Helsinki.
This years edition of Steakhouse Live in London promises be an extraordinary event over two days. I'll be revisiting Untitled (slick glittery) as a redux, Eggs, glitter, floor, vulnerability, it has been four years since this work was last made; there has never been very much to say about it, it is a series of textures: a rapidly changing menopausal body, materials that trouble, the smattering of matter.
Photo credit: Carrie Ruckle
Rapid Pulse, Chicago, 2014
The London launch of Performance Art in Ireland: A History edited by Áine Phillips will be on 17th March at 7pm at Live Art Development Agency. See here for more details. The new, vital and immensely valuable publication includes some images and discussion of my work and I have been invited to contribute to a discussion at the launch.
Details of this launch and others can be found here.
The book can be purchased here