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318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 25 cm.
The works of interdisciplinary artist Kira O'Reilly use the uncertain boundaries of bodies as the starting point for their enquiry. Specifically, O'Reilly asks what kind of societies become possible in collaborations across species, organisms and bodies, and she explores these questions through sustained and experimental engagements with politics, biopolitics, change (social, corporeal, chemical, reactive), and the complex relations between the human and the non-human. This book is the first to offer an in-depth engagement with her many works across diverse formats. Bringing together writings by major artists and thinkers, such as Marina Abramović, Shannon Bell and Tracey Warr, alongside extensive documentation of the artist's work from two decades of practice, the contributions engage with such topics as ideas of performance, feminist political aesthetics, biotechnical practices, image-making and the intersections of humans and animals. The book also includes interviews, archive materia, and O'Reilly's own writings.
Compost and life / Tracey Warr -- Womn performance artists as secret priests / Kira O'Reilly in conversation with Linda Montano -- Somehow I need to write the visceral / Kira O'Reilly -- Kira O'Reilly : techné of anxiety / Shannon Bell -- 'Ocean-deafened voices warning me' / Amanda Coogan -- We keep our biologies intimate / Kira O'Reilly -- Sculpture is the body : a journey through the work of Kira O'Reilly / Rebecca Stevenson -- Kira O'Reilly in conversation with Franko B -- Since 1995 / Rebecca French -- A momentary cohabitation : Kira O'Reilly meets another species / Rob La Frenais -- Out of balance / Doran George -- Showwomen : Kira O'Reilly in conversation with Marisa Carnesky -- Dear us / Fiona Wright -- Writing like this... / Fiona Wright -- Untitled (remembering) / Patrick Duggan -- Syncope: I/we Medusa / Traci Kelly -- What does it mean for you to dance? / Doran George -- Syncopal actions and falling states / Julia Bardsley -- Syncopal actions and falling states / Helena Hunter -- Falling is not so pitiful : on Syncopal actions and falling states / Dominic Johnson.
edited by Harriet Curtis and Martin Hargreaves.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-305) and index.