Cardiff Art in Time
15th March 2007
Kira O'Reilly [UK]
"Quiver (Pieta Performance)"
Kira O'Reilly [UK]
"Quiver (Pieta Performance)"
The pieta is a universal trope dating back to renaissance Catholic art, Michelangelo, more recently Marina Abramovic and Sam Taylor Wood.
The artist is naked and sits for the duration of the work.
People can approach her one at a time and be held in a Pieta configuration.
The artist doesn't communicate with speech except when absolutely necessary.
The piece will be awkward, tactile, hesitant etc. depending on the people who approach, their bodies, how they and she grapple with each other, clumsy intimacies, tottering balances so as not to drop them.
The audience perform themselves, themselves in clumsy embraces, little deaths, lover's holdings. The audience may be clothed or unclothed, depending on their preference.