With Kira O’Reilly
The tutorial invites to create Winogradsky columns using water and soil combined with other materials, from a water source nearby SODAS 2123. As we get our hands wet and muddy, we talk about the environments and eco-systems we are part of, in terms of scale, both physical and temporal. We also consider different ways our columns might function: as environmental portraits, metabolising archives, durational sculptures, social planning for micro-organism communities, or perhaps bacterial architecting.
Kira O’Reilly is an Irish-born Finland-based artist working across visual art and performance, live art and science, art and technology interfaces, as well as writing. Through her interdisciplinary practice, she considers speculative reconfigurations around The Body. Since graduating from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 1998, she has been giving presentations, teaching and exhibiting her art widely throughout the UK, Europe, Australia, China and Mexico.