Salon 41
Kira O'Reilly
Inthewrongplaceness
Sleeping bio beauties
28 January 2005 7pm - 10pm
Peculiar and unlikely slippages between the sanctity of the scientific space and the domestic space underlie this work. Sterility and practices of containment through markings and delineation by conventions, rituals and actions of cleanliness. What goes where, and what you can do where and when. And body's inthewrongplaceness. Curiosities. Recipes and scientific protocols becoming mixed up. The tradition of the Victorian amateur scientist, a tinkerer collecting, enquiring within the home.

• Wash hands • Put on lab coat • Put on latex gloves
• Turn on UV light of sterile hood for 15 minutes
• Turn off UV light • Wipe inside of hood surfaces with
70% ethanol • Do protocol • Remove biohazardous materials for autoclaving and disposing • Wipe inside of hood surfaces with 70% ethanol • Put on UV light of sterile hood
• Remove latex gloves • Remove lab coat • Wash hands

She dreams about placing her own body within
the confines of the laboratory furniture, the casket like hood where nothing can get in and nothing
can get out. I dream I am lying next to pigskin,
Pig alive but skin open to no interior.
I am stroking the ears closely.

Biog: Since 1997 Kira O'Reilly's work has been exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe. More recently she has been invited to Australia and Hong Kong were she
performed new work at Live Wire.

In September she presented at the BioDifference conference Biennial of Perth 2004. She has just completed being an honorary research fellow and artist in resident at SymbioticA, the art science collaborative research lab, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, which was funded by a Wellcome Trust sciart research and development award. She was concerned with exploring convergence between contemporary biotechnical tissue culturing and traditional lace making craft, using the materiality of skin at its cellular level as material and metaphor.

She is currently making performative investigations of
some of the tendrils and tangents that arose during this
period of research.




home is a live art and performance production company which, researches, presents and promotes live events by contemporary artists in a range of spaces and contexts, with audience entertainment and participation as an underlying principle.
Our main space in London is a Victorian
semi in Camberwell, which serves as the
site for a programme of intimate salon evenings and larger scale performance events, based inside the unadulterated domestic surroundings of a family house.