Kira O'Reilly
@kiraoreilly.bsky.social
Irish artist based in Helsinki and Kerry
https://www.kiraoreilly.com/
Vajrayana Buddhist, Naljorma Tsül'dzin, practitioner of Aro gTér Nyingma lineage.
https://aroterlineage.org/en/
https://www.kiraoreilly.com/
Vajrayana Buddhist, Naljorma Tsül'dzin, practitioner of Aro gTér Nyingma lineage.
https://aroterlineage.org/en/
Pinned
Saturday meditation sessions resume at Drala Thang in Helsinki tomorrow, 11-12
#vajrayanabuddhism
#nyingma
#dzogchen
#arogtér
#vajrayanabuddhism
#nyingma
#dzogchen
#arogtér
Saturday meditation sessions resume at Drala Thang in Helsinki tomorrow, 11-12
#vajrayanabuddhism
#nyingma
#dzogchen
#arogtér
#vajrayanabuddhism
#nyingma
#dzogchen
#arogtér
September 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Saturday meditation sessions resume at Drala Thang in Helsinki tomorrow, 11-12
#vajrayanabuddhism
#nyingma
#dzogchen
#arogtér
#vajrayanabuddhism
#nyingma
#dzogchen
#arogtér
FUNDRAISER
Darkness Visible II – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators in Athens.
Buy a t-shirt, and/or donate
Darkness Visible II – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators in Athens.
Buy a t-shirt, and/or donate
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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September 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
FUNDRAISER
Darkness Visible II – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators in Athens.
Buy a t-shirt, and/or donate
Darkness Visible II – A 10 day performance making workshop by Ron Athey & Collaborators in Athens.
Buy a t-shirt, and/or donate
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...
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...
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...
helsinkibiennaali.fi
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
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...
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.
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September 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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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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.
Unforgettable, unique, disturbingly exquisite and extraordinary.
Please be a patron by donating to their appeal.
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...
4fund.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
Unforgettable, unique, disturbingly exquisite and extraordinary.
Please be a patron by donating to their appeal.
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...
- 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...
June 18, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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...
- 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...
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
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
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...
www.publics.fi
June 18, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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
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
Such a pleasure to listen to
William Forsythe “Sometimes I Kiss Flowers”
YouTube video by Kyoto Prize
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June 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Such a pleasure to listen to
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.
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.
May 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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.
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.
Users of Pocket
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Thanks in advance
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Thanks in advance
May 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Users of Pocket
which app are you switching to?
Thanks in advance
which app are you switching to?
Thanks in advance
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.
We adored him. Gosh he was gorgeous, so open, enquiring and curious.
May 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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.
We adored him. Gosh he was gorgeous, so open, enquiring and curious.
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.'
SAMBANDH, by Lingam. K
'the exhibition highlights our current climate situation and explores the profound relationship between climate change and glaciers.'
May 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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.'
SAMBANDH, by Lingam. K
'the exhibition highlights our current climate situation and explores the profound relationship between climate change and glaciers.'
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.
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.
May 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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.
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.
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.
Image: Tilt series, post card for mail art project.
Drawings made during the residency period.
May 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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.
Image: Tilt series, post card for mail art project.
Drawings made during the residency period.
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
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
April 26, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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
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
Essential reading
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Essential reading
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.
Originally conceived as visualisions of actions for camera, the clunky collages are taking on their own life.
Tilt, a proposition, UN Park, Patan.
April 11, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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.
Originally conceived as visualisions of actions for camera, the clunky collages are taking on their own life.
Tilt, a proposition, UN Park, Patan.
'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...
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...
Third Text
www.thirdtext.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
'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...
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...
The Monument is a telescope
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Prologue, epilogues i — Kira O'Reilly
www.kiraoreilly.com
March 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Monument is a telescope
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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...
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...
Feminist Futures : Art, Activism and South Asian Womanhood – Taragaon Next
taragaonnext.com
March 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
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...
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.
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.
March 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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.
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.
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
Koroistentie 6,
00280 Helsinki
11.00 - 12.00
Hosted tomorrow by me in English
all levels are more than welcome
March 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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
Koroistentie 6,
00280 Helsinki
11.00 - 12.00
Hosted tomorrow by me in English
all levels are more than welcome
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
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
March 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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
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
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...
Aku Sorensen, conductor
Steve Reich: City Life
Philip Glass: Concerto for saxophone quartet
Terry Riley: In C
www.espoo.fi/en/events/es...
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:...
www.espoo.fi
March 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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...
Aku Sorensen, conductor
Steve Reich: City Life
Philip Glass: Concerto for saxophone quartet
Terry Riley: In C
www.espoo.fi/en/events/es...
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.'
'The visual world is to do with what we see as space which changes all the time.'
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
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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.'
'The visual world is to do with what we see as space which changes all the time.'