Kira O'Reilly
Kira O'Reilly (Book)
Untitled (Bodies)
Artist Kira O'Reilly's works use the uncertain boundaries of bodies to ask what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies. She explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change and the complex relations between the human and the non-human.
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The works of interdisciplinary artist Kira O’Reilly use the uncertain boundaries of bodies as the starting point for their enquiry. Specifically, O’Reilly asks what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies, and she explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change (social, corporeal, chemical, reactive) and the complex relations between the human and the non-human.
This book is the first to offer an in-depth engagement with her many works across diverse formats. Bringing together writings by major artists and thinkers, such as Marina Abramović, Shannon Bell and Tracey Warr, alongside extensive documentation of the artist’s work from two decades of practice, the contributions engage with such topics as ideas of performance, feminist political aesthetics, biotechnical practices, image-making and the intersections of humans and animals. The book also includes interviews, archive material and O’Reilly’s own writings.
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Harriet Curtis is a teaching fellow in performance studies and liberal arts at King’s College London.
Martin Hargreaves is a writer, dramaturg, and performer.
Foreword
Marina Abramovc
Introduction
Harriet Curtis
Compost and Life
Tracey Warr
Women Performance Artists as Secret Priests
Linda Montano and Kira O'Reilly
Somehow I Need to Write the Visceral
Kira O'Reilly
Kira O'Reilly Techné of Anxiety
Shannon Bell
'Ocean-Deafened Voices Warning Me'
Amanda Coogan
We Keep Our Biologies Intimate
Kira O'Reilly
Sculpture is the Body: A Journey Through the Work of Kira O'Reilly
Rebecca Stevenson
Kira O'Reilly in Conversation with Franko B
Franko B and Kira O'Reilly
Since 1995
Rebecca French
A Momentary Cohabitation: Kira O'Reilly Meets Another Species
Rob La Frenais
Out of Balance
Doran George
Showwomen: Kira O'Reilly in Conversation with Marisa Carnesky
Marisa Carnesky and Kira O'Reilly
Dear Us
Fiona Wright
Writing Like This...
Fiona Wright
Untitled (Remembering)
Patrick Duggan
Syncope: I/We Medusa
Traci Kelly
What Does it Mean For You to Dance?
Doran George
Syncopal Actions and Falling States
Julia Bardsley
Syncopal Actions and Falling States
Helena Hunter
Falling Is Not So Pitiful: On Syncopal Actions and Falling States
Dominic Johnson
Further Reading
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Index
