From the original Festival website:

Untitled (Syncope) is about a body of sorts, a moving, gasping, swooning body, that is unravelling and moving in some tandem with audience (you) and space.

It exists in four sections of movement identified by tempo changes:

1. Reflective walk to you
2. Opening action/Breath action
3. Tip Toes/Neverending actions
4. Clarity/Doubt:

It could be thought of as a dance of sorts.
Not a real one.
Not a real body to dance with.
But a sense of sway.
A loss of posture.
In and out of breath.
In and out of you.
I’ll do it once.
And then once again.
For each one of you.
Together.

I may find myself falling out of a hypnagogic spasm into your arms, undone and altogether another.
“When you fall into syncope, you never know in what shape you might return: with wolf’s paws, the tail of a serpent, a bark at your lips, a pelt or fur. . . One never knows”
Syncope, the Philosophy of Rapture, Catherine Clément

Works quoted, embedded, digested, sequestered, cited implicitly or explicitly:

Various dances by Fiona Wright and Mark Jeffery
Lettere amorose, Sacre – Raimund Hoghe
When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy. a double performance – Goat Island,
Heart of Glass – Werner Herzog.
Beau Travail – dir Claire Dennis.
Blue Velvet – dir. David Lynch.
The Drift – Scott Walker.
Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture – Catherine Clément, University of Minnesota Press, 1994

Kira O’Reilly is a UK-based artist. Her practice, whilst both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a fine art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider her body, The Body and other bodies as material and site; bodies that matter and the matter of bodies. Over the last two year she has begun to make ‘dances’ with her 42 year-old non-dance trained body, attempting to totter at the edge of some kind of capacity and some unnamed ground. She has also been trying to grow muscle, bone and nerve cells onto spider silk in a laboratory, supported by Wellcome Trust and University of Birmingham. Most recently she has made falling asleep with a pig, for The Arts Catalyst exhibition INTERSPECIES; was Thinker in residence for SPILL Festival of Performance, London and has performed in Marina Abramovic Presents at the Manchester International Festival ’09.

Originally commissioned by SPILL Festival of Performance, London, 2007. Thanks to Robert Pacitti, Doran George and Fiona Wright.

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