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source: artcollaboration

– An ever-growing online gallery and archive of all of Manuel Vason‘s collaborations.

– An answer to the unresolved dilemma of documenting a live performance.

– A presentation of work from some of the most remarkable contemporary performance artists.

– A photographic essay.

– A body of work, which stretches the concept of portraiture.

– A collection of performances, devised for the camera.

– Devoted research on the potential of the human body and its power of expression.

The objective of calling this website Art Collaboration is to emphasise on the collaborative nature of each image presented here. Each image is an artwork equally shared between Manuel Vason and the artist-collaborator-performer.

Since 1999 Manuel Vason has been working closely with contemporary practitioners, to create distinctive photographic images. These images have been created in the spirit of collaboration and have sought new ways to express the liveness of the photographic act. These images are not quite portraiture, not direct documentation of performances, but they are somewhere in between and seek to capture a performative moment and essence.
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source: academiaedu

Kira O’Reilly

Based in the United Kingdom, Kira O’Reilly has become an internationallyrecognized performance artist, presenting work at festivals and symposiaaround the globe. Her practice stems from a fine art background andemploys performance, and more recently writing and biotechnical prac-tices, to consider the body as material and site in which narrative threadsof the personal, sexual, social and political knot and unknot in shiftingpermutations.

Her work re-negotiates the relationship between performerand audience, recognizing it as a dynamic exchange where meaning isconstructed. This investigation collapses the distance between artist andaudience bringing them into immediate and intimate dialogue. In 2004, O’Reilly was awarded a Wellcome Trust ‘sciart’ research anddevelopment award and completed an honorary research fellowship as artistin residence at SymbioticA, an art-science collaborative research lab, at theSchool of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia. O’Reilly expanded this research while an honorary research associate in an Arts Council of England funded residency in the School of Biosciences,University of Birmingham, from June to December 2007, investigatingspider silk and muscle cell cultures as biomedia; she has recently beenawarded a grant by the Wellcome Trust to further this investigation. In 2006, O’Reilly performed at the DaDao festival in Beijing, and in 2007, she made a newly commissioned work, for SPILL,a festival of performance, in London. It is this performance which stimu-lated the beginnings of our dialogue.
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source: manuelvason

I see my practice as a constant battle against the impossibility of reaching ‘presence’.
For years I have been trying hard to bridge photography and performance, and everyday I live the illusion of having fulfilled my ambition.

In the core of my practice lies an exchange; between myself and another artist, between the work and the viewer.

I see myself reflected in all the artists I have met, collaborated and fallen in love with…Can art be a relationship?

Working with different minds and bodies allows me to discover every day something new about my own mind and body.

I’ve always wanted to be a sculptor although I’ve been using photography as my main medium.

Surface is my material.

Surface is my biggest enemy.

Maybe curiosity is eating me up inside, but so far it tastes pretty good.