Kira O'Reilly

Fundraiser: SUKA OFF "Die Puppe" performance at FIDSDMX in Mexico City | Sylwia Lajbig-Węgrzyńska | 4fund.com Despite 30 years of artistic work with international recognition, we are completely ignored by institutions in our country. By refusing support, we were deprived of the chance to perform at the Intern...

SUKA OFF's fundraiser to travel to the International Contemporary Dance Festival, Mexico City, August.

Unforgettable, unique, disturbingly exquisite and extraordinary.

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Facing alienation, anxiety and addiction as a practitioner
- an evening talk on the power of view, meditation and Action

25th June, 2025
18:00 – 21:00

Lama Trømstal Dorje teaching in English, takes place at Drala Thang, Helsinki and via Zoom.

aroterlineage.org/en/events/fa...

I'm thrilled you're doing this!

I'm keen to see this, courtesy of Helsinki's PUBLICS and AMOS REX

24 Hours with Tony Cokes, a retrospective of video works
12/13 Sept 202
with performances by Vladislav Delay (Sasu Ripatti), + Finland super group Sonic Wilderness Remix; Antye Greie-Ripatti aka “AGF”, Islaja, and Cucina Povera

YouTube video by Kyoto Prize William Forsythe “Sometimes I Kiss Flowers”

Such a pleasure to listen to

Environmental protesters splatter Parliament House pillars with red paint Two climate groups said they wanted to draw attention to the use of "disastrous" peat mines in Sweden run by the Finnish state-owned company Neova.

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I was just thinking about the last artwork that got me really excited and inspired here in Finland.
A powerfully articulate and moving work, attributed to Elokapina, Finland and Restore Wetlands, Sweden, 2024.

Well considered for it's impact, and - for it's ease of removal.

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Do watch Adrian Heathfield and Hugh Glendinning's
Transfigured Night,
'The record of an exchange between the celebrated American philosopher Alphonso Lingis and the British art theorist and curator Adrian Heathfield.' Links here:
www.adrianheathfield.net/project/tran...

Dinner with Alphoniso Lingus, recently departed, almost exactly ten years ago following our key notes at the Medical Humanities Conference in Dartington.
We adored him. Gosh he was gorgeous, so open, enquiring and curious.

Opening on 10th May at 3pm at Taragaon Next, Kathmandu,
SAMBANDH, by Lingam. K

'the exhibition highlights our current climate situation and explores the profound relationship between climate change and glaciers.'

- Soundscapes from Lotus Guest house in Bodhanath, Kathmandu Valley this May morn, 2025

The Roots of the Mountain Ash Embrace The Stone II, by Natalia Beylis 1 track album

In my foresound I listen to a drone from home, the squeezing from a breathy organ - the air sighs. The Roots of the Mountain Ash Embrace The Stone II play like an underscore to travels and loiterers, lingerings and falterings.

nataliabeylis.bandcamp.com/album/the-ro...

‘Where are you from?’ Refrains from motorbike taxi drivers - their question and my answer blown away by the wind; repeated by chiselers, the cook, the wife, the thief and her lover. They all want to know.
‘Ireland,’ I say. ‘The island in the west of Europe’.
Some know, some don’t.

The ubiquitous percussion of a torrent of water hitting a plastic bucket, the quelling tempo of the days dust begins with a sweep of bound grass stems.

With sinewy grace, the blue notes of a clarinet insinuate themselves into the sphere of sound and light, bright, untarnished and breezy.

From the earliest hour, the crows have the air, their ligneous timbre scratching the skies.

Dungchen and rolmo announce themselves with orchestrated awe, insistent and epic, like cavalries of sound amidst heroic strikes of thunderous booms. I love the small of coffee in the morning.

And so ends the residency at Gallery Mcube in Patan, Nepal.

Image: Tilt series, post card for mail art project.
Drawings made during the residency period.

I'm giving an artist talk: Propositions
Tuesday 29th April
4 - 5.30pm
Gallery Mcube in Patan, Nepal

This is the culmination of a months work during a residency funded by a mobility grant from Suomen Kulttuurirahasto

Image: Tilt series, UN Park, 2025
Digital collage

Essential reading

Small works in progress emerging during a month residency at Gallery Mcube, Lalitpur, Patan, Nepal.

Originally conceived as visualisions of actions for camera, the clunky collages are taking on their own life.

Tilt, a proposition, UN Park, Patan.

'The weather is a collaborator'

Thank you to Leonor Veiga for her detailed review of ‘Nurture Gaia’: The Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 in Third Text, and for being so attentive to the details of my work, including working with the ambient weather conditions.

www.thirdtext.org/veiga-bangko...

Prologue, epilogues i — Kira O'Reilly

The Monument is a telescope

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Feminist Futures : Art, Activism and South Asian Womanhood curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala
Taragaon Next Museum, Kathamndu

The stunning exhibition presents works from 10 South Asian artists critically engaging with gendered histories, social inequities

taragaonnext.com/events/femin...

I am in Nepal for another Vajrayana né'khor (pilgrimage) and during April a residency at Gallery Mcube in Kathmandu.

Photographed by Kathmandu artist Zayk
I am wearing gö-kar-chang-lo'i dé robes, displaying the white skirt and uncut hair of a Naljorma, yogini.

Our weekly Saturday morning meditation group is tomorrow at Drala Thang
Koroistentie 6,
00280 Helsinki

11.00 - 12.00

Hosted tomorrow by me in English
all levels are more than welcome

Thinking in eighths today

Glimpses from Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen's phone of the 2nd of 3 parts of:

A score of
tilting | glancing | standing | stepping
Discreet actions for a public space

for Tapiola Sinfonietta's CITY LIFE (Minimalismi-festivaali) at Espoon Kultuurikeskus

Absolutely 💜

Tapiola Sinfonietta: CITY LIFE (Minimalism Festival) | City of Espoo Aku Sorensen, conductorRaschèr Saxophone QuartetSteve Reich: City LifePhilip Glass: Concerto for saxophone quartetTerry Riley: In CBefore concert:...

Tapiola Sinfonietta's Minimalism Festival begins tomorrow evening, my minimal performance interventions will be in the foyer areas throughout the evening.

Aku Sorensen, conductor
Steve Reich: City Life
Philip Glass: Concerto for saxophone quartet
Terry Riley: In C
www.espoo.fi/en/events/es...

Which is not to say that I cannot talk about my work, but that how the work occurs is not an intellectual process.

I was reminded of it yesterday came having tried to explain that the whys and wherefores of my work don't behave or confirm to intellectual explanation, because that is not where it comes from.