Currently in rehearsals with an international cast of performers and musicians, directed by Robert Wilson

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Untitled (syncopations for more bodies)

Kira O’Reilly with Lauren Barri Holstein, Hrafnhildur Benediktsdóttir, Nathália Mello and Amanda Prince-Lubawy.

Untitled (syncopations for more bodies) plays, glances, glimpses and amplifies syncopal swoons, rhythms and disrhythms of movement across five similar and dissimilar dancing bodies within the levels and viewing sights of the Peoples Palace great Hall.

1. Reflective walk to you.
2. Opening action/Breath actions
3. Tip Toes/Never ending actions
4. Clarity/Doubt
5. Arrest

“when you fall into syncope, you never know in what shape you might return: with wolf’s paws, the tail of a serpent, a bark at your lips, a pelt or fur. . . . One never knows”

Syncope, the Philosophy of Rapture, Catherine Clément  

http://www.airproject.qmul.ac.uk/whatson/ 

Stair Falling (2009 - 2010), Grubar Palace, Ljubljana.See images by Nada Zgank here and video here.

ANTI , see images here.

Dress posh for an evening of performance art Duckie. Performance & Cocktails, 25, 26th and 27th August. I’m just performing on 27th.

The first Fierce Interrobang takes place on 25th June at Warwick Arts Centre.I’ll be leading a 2 hour exercise on exploring the landscape through drifting and wandering in silence. Somewhat altered from the original, it’s provenance is a exercise led by members of Goat Island during one of their summer schools which I attended in Glasgow during the summer of 1998 that facilitated sensory research.The walk allows a simple score of exchanges of leading and following to take a group of people on a collective movement through a landscape. The silence combined with the act of following and not having necessarily having to make decisions seems to allow other senses to rearrange themselves and to come to other prominence. A diffusion of awareness, perhaps more pervasive and peripheral, allows for sound and texturescapes to inhabited and moved through and a collective self-organisation emerges through non verbal exchange.These are small opportunities to be in our everyday environments and to participate in them via slight alterities of orientation and mode by deploying collaborative performative exercises.

ORLAN

A Hybrid Body of Artworks

A new Routledge publication.It includes an essay, Psychic Weight by Dominic Johnson on ORLAN, Breyer P-Orridge, Gina  Pane and myself. Thank you Dominic.

SPILL Festival of Performance: On AgencyEdited by Robert Pacitti and Shelia Ghelani.Published by Pacitti Company.available here.

photo credit, Briony Cambell, for Fierce, Birmingham.

Kira O’Reilly from this is tomorrow on Vimeo.

Click here to download the new PIG edition of Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.It includes a feature on my work inthewrongplaceness.The cover is an image by Astrid Kogler, from the series, The Pig Trilogy,  2007 © Astrid Kogler.Antennae is in it’s 3rd year of production, it is free, no advertising, non-profit and non funded, so please consider making a donation.