Event overview
Visual Cultures MA Guest Lecture Series
'Thresholds of Performance: Between Body, Laboratory and Text'
Across practices and methodologies of performance, biotechnical practices and writing, O’Reilly will attempt to reimagine, refold and speculate on reconfigurations of bodily matters, bodies of matter and liveness. In this talk she will introduce some of these works, their influences and crucial aspects and perhaps imagine with you where and how they might develop, fray, unwind and remesh.
Kira O'Reilly
Since graduating from the University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 1998 in Fine Art, her performance works have been exhibited widely throughout the UK, Europe, Australia, China and Mexico. In October 2004 she completed an artist residency at SymbioticA, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, funded by a Wellcome Trust sciart research and development award. She was concerned with exploring convergence between contemporary biotechnical tissue culturing and traditional lace making crafts, using the materiality of skin at its cellular level as material and metaphor. She has continued and expanded these investigations as artist in residence in the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, funded by Arts Council of England and Wellcome Trust where she is investigating using spider silk and bone, muscle and nerve cell cultures as biomedia, and the relations between tissue, text and textile – as variants on the theme of techné with writing outcomes. In 2009 new works included 'falling sleep with a pig' (2009) commissioned by The Arts Catalyst for INTERSPECIES. She presented 'Stair Falling' (2009) exhibited as part of 'Marina Abramovic Presents . . .' at Manchester International Festival. Her work 'inthewrongplaceness' (2005 – 2009) was curated by Jens Hauser in the highly successful sk-interfaces, Creating Membranes in Art, Technology and Society, at Casino Luxembourg. In autumn 2010 she begins an AHRC funded three year creative fellowship at Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London, 'Thresholds of Performance: Between Body, Laboratory and Text.'
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 21 Oct 2010 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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