Untitled Performance Lecture (a gift, redux)
15.9. – 20.9.
Kira O’Reilly
Kira O’Reilly (b. 1967) is an Irish artist currently based in Helsinki; her practice is willfully interdisciplinary and celebrates an undisciplinarity, stems from a visual art background. It employs performance, sculpture, biotechnical practices, writing and experimental media with which to consider speculative reconfigurations of The Body in its most expanded sense, across multiple spaces, scales and temporalities, often but not always, working with site, duration and context as generative elements.
In this performance lecture, Kira O’Reilly will pull on the threads of her legendary performance, Untitled Action for a Bomb Shelter in Kuopio, 2003, and its connections to her work now.
In the second edition of ANTI Festival, Kira O’Reilly presented for first time a performance art of some significance, Untitled Action for a Bomb Shelter in Kuopio, 2003. Created for the specific site in Kuopio, the action made for and with one person at a time built on a series of earlier works that expanded a vocabulary of formal bodily interventions, drawing from rich, deep and wide lineages of performance art.
In this performance lecture, O’Reilly will pull on the threads of this work, the webs, knotty tangles and connections to her work now, and that of other artists whose work insists and informs the three decades career of her artmaking now.