Salon 24
Kira O'Reilly
'Home Comings'
17 & 18 May @ 8pm.
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Home presented the third in the 'Intimate Journeys' series, 'home comings' by Kira O'Reilly. The title 'home comings' suggests pasts acts of departures, the action of leaving in order to come home. Developed in response to the complex and emotive relationship the artist has with her own mother's house and former home, the work at home involved a series of 'drawings' made in different rooms in the house through the print of the body. The majority of these 'drawings' were made as a private performance around the house, with several pieces being witnessed directly by the audience. The artist took the audience around the house, to witness the installation of the drawings. Alongside these actions was Kira's mother.
Kira's key performances have included 'Succour' commissioned by the National Review of Live Art 2001, 'Wet Cup' at the Lux Cinema, London, Kanonhallen, Copenhagen Denmark, and the Deptford X Festival, London. 'Unknowing' commissioned by Small Acts at the Millenium, and 'Bad Humours/Affected' Cardiff Art and Time Festival and touring.
The home Salon provides the space for the informal presentation of new, experimental and work-in-progress performance and live art in the domestic context of home, an art space based inside a family house in Camberwell, London.