O'Reilly, Kira: Wet Cup [interview]

O'Reilly, Kira: Wet Cup [interview]

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Title Wet Cup [interview]
Type Performance, Interview, Body-art / Live-art, Perseverance performance
Date 22 June 2002
Venue Kapelica Gallery
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production Kapelica Gallery
Language English
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 24' 38"
Registration number KAP-2002-PRED-119

Synopsis

The artist deals with opening up the body and includes rituals of marking the body and bloodletting. Her works recognise the meaning of the body but at the same time, they deny it. The audience becomes a partner-in-crime by engaging in the process of confirming and denying what it sees.

 

“Scars which stay after that procedure are permanent.” 
(Medical Encyclop˛dia)

Source: Kontejner

Sodelujejo

Curator Sunčica Ostoić

Artist, artistic group

Group of artworks

O'Reilly Kira, Wet Cup, Ljubljana, 22 June 2002, 61' 43"

Production

Venue

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