Kira O’Reilly (UK): Untitled bomb shelter action for Kuopio

By using her body as location as well as material, live artist Kira O’Reilly’s vocabulary and modus operandi rise through the conceptions of trauma (wound) and stigma (mark) toward opening and spoiling the body, which leads to change and otherness.
All her works contain the activity of making marks, which is O’Reilly’s way of reacting to place, time and context. Through performative gestures she explores the limits of the body and how we conceive of presence and where Me ends and You begins.

Kira O’Reilly is a visual artist who has worked in the field of live art since 1998. Her works have been on show all over Europe and in Australia. Her works are marked by a minimalist, economical and acute visuality combined with the making of marks in which she uses blood to underline the ease of shattering a body of mere matter whilst reacting directly to space and architecture. Only one person at a time can view the O’Reilly performance. The work contains material which some people may find challenging.