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View (nearer to the time)
Photograph Manuel Vason

	kira o'reilly


	Live art, Installation-based performance

SIZE OF COMPANY
1–2 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Small-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Kira O’Reilly

ARTISTIC POLICY
To use performance, video, installation and photography to consider the body as a site in which the personal, sexual, social and political knot and unknot. The work is explicit, sometimes uncomfortable, and seeks to question rather than provide easy answers. By asking the audience to take a risk, a sense of intimacy is established, creating a direct and immediate dialogue with the audience.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'I like to think Kira’s work is... not beautiful but sublime.' Lois Keidan, National Review of Live Art Programme

'O’Reilly permeates the barrier between us to explore whether or not this exchange has meaning and makes the audience aware more than ever before of its individual responsibility, culpability and generosity.' Helen Cole, Arnolfini

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Inthewrongplaceness For one audience member at a time, a 10-minute slow crushing dance with a sow carcass that is repeated over the course of several hours. (Duration variable)

View (nearer to the time) Intimate and personal one-on-one negotiations are made by email correspondence and phone conversations between artist and audience to negotiate the making or not making of a cut on the artist’s body. The audience then meet with the artist’s shrouded and impersonalised body in small groups to make or not make their mark. (Duration variable)

Action for... Re-made for specific sites and venues. Individual encounters of intimacy and tenderness with the artist. (Duration variable)

Harvest Video projection installation exploring the opening of the skin.

Blood Wall Drawings Over several days a drawing is made on the walls that has been mapped out into a fine grid of small slashes, using the artist’s blood. (Duration variable)

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Workshops available for practitioners, designed specifically for context and site. Talks and presentations.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2006 China

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request.