Kira O'Reilly

Artist and Lecturer in Helsinki, Finland

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For this spring semester I am based in Alfred, New York as the Randall International Chair in sculpture at Alfred University where I am teaching a class in performance, ecology and social sculpture.

Otherwise I am based in Helsinki I work in performance, photography, installation, sometimes biotechnical practices, and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body, bodies and what that might mean in our contemporary times.

My art work is presented in visual arts, dance, performance art, live art and science, art and technology contexts. I also teach, mentor, give talks and offer workshops across these interdisciplinary fields and implicate practices such as martial arts, architecture, ecology, sound and music.

I collaborate with humans of various types and technologies and non-humans of numerous divergences including mosses, spiders, the sun, pigs, cell cultures, horses, micro-organisms, bicycles, rivers, landscapes, tundras, rocks, trees, shoes, food, books, air, moon and ravens.

In 2017, the lavishly illustrated
Kira O'Reilly: Untitled (Bodies), Edited by Harriet Curtis & Martin Hargreaves was published by Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books

http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/publishing/kira-oreilly-untitled-bodies/

I am a Buddhist and practice the Tibetan Nyingma lineage, Aro gTér. http://arobuddhism.org/I'm particularly passionate about sKu-mNyé, a series of psycho-physical exercies from Dzogchen Long-dé and I teach them when I have the opportunity. http://arobuddhism.org/community/sku-mnye.html

Image: Kira O'Reilly, Be-wilderment (Nature Drag), 2017, Photo credit Taija Jyrkäs. Commissioned for SPLICE Re-Examining Nature, Oulu Museum of Art, 2017