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Kira O'Reilly

@kiraoreilly.bsky.social
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Irish artist based in Helsinki and Kerry www.kiraoreilly.com Vajrayana Buddhist, Naljorma Tsül'dzin, practitioner of Aro gTér Nyingma lineage. aroterlineage.org/en

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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
How beautiful a tribute
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Opening on 20 February, 2026 Gallery Mcube, Lalitpur, Nepal A group exhibition, CONNECTED HORIZONS
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Helsinki - workshop alert II 14.02.2026 Data sonification with Jupyter Lab and Pure Data 14.00-16.00 with Malte Steiner Info here: aanenlumo.com/2026/02/03/1...
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13.&14.2. / Block 4 dialogues x performance protocols interventions
Block 4 dialogues is an ongoing series which activates the independent label Block 4 in dialogue with situations, other artists, labels and spaces which also becomes a networking activity in itself…
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Helsinki - workshop alert 14.02.2026 Deep Listening scores (12.00-14-00) with Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen Info here: aanenlumo.com/2026/02/03/1...
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13.&14.2. / Block 4 dialogues x performance protocols interventions
Block 4 dialogues is an ongoing series which activates the independent label Block 4 in dialogue with situations, other artists, labels and spaces which also becomes a networking activity in itself…
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Saturday meditation sessions at Drala Thang in Helsinki, 10.45-12.00 #vajrayanabuddhism #nyingma #dzogchen #arogtér
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A few of us have got together to help our friend Vimla and her community of families in Kathmandu. Please consider making a donation. Thank you! gofund.me/63b80a766
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Donate to Support Vimla and her village in Kathmandu, organized by Jan Hillman, Kira O’Reilly, Nick Benians, Lama Mé-tsal Wangmo
Vimla Devi lives with her family and her community of approxi… Jan Hillman, Kira O’Reilly, Nick Benians, Lama Mé-tsal Wangmo needs your support for Support Vimla and her village in Kathmandu
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Looking forward to your posts here @indstudiesuh.bsky.social Indigenous Studies at the University of Helsinki www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
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Indigenous Studies | University of Helsinki
Indigenous research methodologies, social worlds, and epistemologies.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Kira O’Reilly + Marie-Pier Boucher A performance reading on 26th February, 2026 5pm UTC Dis-Orienting Bodies - Performing Space Registration and details in link
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Talk: Dis-Orienting Bodies - Performing Space 26/02/2026 online — Kira O'Reilly
Kira O’Reilly + Marie-Pier Boucher 26th February, 2026 5pm UTC A performance reading Dis-Orienting Bodies - Performing Space A performance reading of two voices exploring performance as a mode of p...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Same Same
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
FUNDRAISER Darkness Visible II – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators in Athens. Buy a t-shirt, and/or donate
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Darkness Visible II
Fundraiser for DVII – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators | Check out 'Darkness Visible II' on Indiegogo.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Public talk: Art as an Agent of Ecological Change. 20/09 Keynote with STEVE KURTZ of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) A panel discussion with Helsinki Biennial artists A round table with Steve Kurtz, Hege Tapio, Tapio Makela and Kati Kivinen helsinkibiennaali.fi/en/event/pub...
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Public talk: Art as an Agent of Ecological Change - Helsinki Biennial
The event is a collaboration between Helsinki Biennial and Finnish Art Society. Keynote by Steve Kurtz, Critical Art Ensemble Panel discussion with Helsinki Biennial artists Round table with Steve Kur...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I was so delighted to make it to the final hour of GLOBUS HYSTERICUS, an exhibition by performance duo Kainulainen & Latva at Forum Box in Helsinki, that I had to jot a few words down about it, which you can read here. www.linkedin.com/posts/kira-o...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
SUKA OFF's fundraiser to travel to the International Contemporary Dance Festival, Mexico City, August. Unforgettable, unique, disturbingly exquisite and extraordinary. Please be a patron by donating to their appeal.
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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...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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
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PUBLICS
PUBLICS is a curatorial agency with a dedicated library, event space and reading room in Vallila Helsinki, known for its industrial working class histories and, more recently, for its influx of diverg...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Such a pleasure to listen to
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William Forsythe “Sometimes I Kiss Flowers”
YouTube video by Kyoto Prize
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Users of Pocket which app are you switching to? Thanks in advance
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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.'
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Essential reading
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
'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...
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Third Text
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The Monument is a telescope archive post
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Prologue, epilogues i — Kira O'Reilly
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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...
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Feminist Futures : Art, Activism and South Asian Womanhood – Taragaon Next
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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...
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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:...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The video in this link features an exchange between Leonora Carrington and her niece Joanna Moorhead during which Carrington defies Moorheads attempts to intellectualise her work. 'The visual world is to do with what we see as space which changes all the time.'
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My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington
Throughout her childhood, Joanna Moorhead never heard a good word from her family about her cousin. When she went to Mexico she found out why she had abandoned them 60 years ealier
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This summer sees the completion and celebration ceremonies of the magnificent Great Enlightenment Stupa at Danakosha Ling here in Finland, under the guidance of Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche. Her Holiness Mindrolling Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche and Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche will preside over a 5 days event
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🌟 Historic Event in Finland: The Great Enlightenment Stupa Inauguration! 🌟
Join us from July 31 - August 4, 2025 at Danakosha Ling for a once-in-a-lifetime spiritual celebration. Don't miss out!
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This morning as the rain pelts, listening to the sonorous and sombre Blue Veil by Lucy Railton
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Blue Veil, by Lucy Railton
7 track album
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Open call for Saari Residency, a rural residency providing a accommodation, workspace and a monthly stipend. Those coming from the Global South can apply for support for air travel and visa costs. Artists, curators, writers, musicians, dancers . . . @koneensaatio.fi
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For Saari residency applicants - Kone Foundation
This section includes guidelines for how to apply for the Saari Residence. The Saari Residence is an international residence for artists and researchers.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Timothy Snyder, as eloquent as always He also includes in the link organisations to donate to in support of Ukraine.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today is the first in the year of the Wood Snake in the Tibetan calendar Losar Tashi Deleks to one and all
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thank you to Frame Contemporary Art Finland for inviting me to talk about showing my work at Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 for which I was awarded a travel grant. Photo: post performing for 3 hours in the heat and humidity in the courtyard of National Gallery of Thailand.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
And so ends this edition of Bangkok Art Biennale. Menopausal Gym, 2024 National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok Art Biennale A huge thanks to everyone involved #BAB2024
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
We see you all the way from Finland!
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Today I'm listening to an amazing and very moving episode with David Keoghan, stone lifter extraordinaire. @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social you're so right, it is in a way a kind of performance art
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
LA friends Such a must, and there is a luscious looking book
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Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation - Fisher Museum of Art
Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation considers the importance of science fiction fandom and occult interests to U.S. LGBTQ history. Curated by ONE Archives at the USC Librar...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My work 'Menopausal Gym' is in super company at the National Gallery of Thailand at part of Bangkok Art Biennale. If you're in Bangkok, don't miss the exhibitions both there and the nearby National Musuem of Thailand. #BAB2024
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Today's listening here in Helsinki I'm working my way through Maria Sommerville's pitch perfect The Early Bird shows, each one's charmed me. Heard of from of from @janehughes-artist.bsky.social chatting with Paul O'Neil I believe. I pay attention!
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THE EARLY BIRD SHOW W/ MARIA SOMERVILLE, Michael Speers, Seán Being & Dylan Kerr 16th December 2024
Playing Folk, Ambient, Dream Pop. Drifting into a new day with Maria Somerville, live from Ireland's wild west coast.
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Listen
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
On Monday 24th February, here in Helsinki #wemustnotforget #WeStandWithUkraine
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Candlelight memorial 24.2 and an exhibition remembers Ukrainian war victims | University of Helsinki
The public is invited to the Light for Ukraine event in Senate Square 24 February at 6 pm. On Monday 24 February the exhibition Unissued Diplomas will open in the lobby of the main building of the Uni...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A petition in Finland in protest at attempts to curtail academic freedom by the Trump administration. Finland based researchers, please read and sign www.openpetition.eu/fi/petition/...
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Open petition to protect freedom of science - Online vetoomus
Dear Rectors of Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences, We, as members of the scientific community, have been following the restriction of free science and freedom of speech in the ...
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Kira O'Reilly @kiraoreilly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Two great days of sound and visuals in Kathmandu 21/22 Feb Boiling Harmonies 2025 If you're in KTM this weekend do go A different venue on each of the two days. www.boilinghead.com/boiling-harm...
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Boiling Harmonies 2025 – Boiling Head Media
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