Kira O’Reilly is an independent artist currently based in Helsinki Finland. Her practice stems from a visual art background employing performance, sculpture, biotechnical practices, writing and experimental media with which to consider speculative reconfigurations of The Body in its most expanded sense, across multiple spaces, scales and temporalities. The origins of her work lie in the materiality and mutability of sculpture meeting radical feminist performance art as it emerged from the confluence of visual arts, experimental performance and media art, subcultures and body politics in the early ‘90s in Europe and North America. She has also worked in the biological arts with its implicit biopolitics, and the extension into bodily relations as they manifest in relations to nonhuman others, ecological considerations, and other than human environments. Since 1998 she has exhibited widely in contexts from visual art, performance art and live art, to interfaces of art, science and technology, and dance. She presents at conferences and symposia on performance and live art, science, art and technology.

The main body of her artistic practice is performance art to which she often brings a particular emphasis of physicality, which is explored over durations up to many hours. Of note is inthewrongplacness (2005), a performance for one person at a time, commissioned for HOME, London, which explored human animal and nonhuman animal relations.Stair Falling, a slow falling descent down a stair case, first performed in 2009 for Marina Abramovic Presents, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester International Festival.