Kira O’Reilly is a UK based artist; her practice, both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. Her work has been exhibited widely. She has also presented at conferences and symposia on both live art and science, art and technology interfaces. She has been a visiting lecturer in the UK and Australia and U.S.A.; currently she is a part time lecturer in Media Arts and Performance in University of Wales Institute Cardiff. She is currently developing a new work, falling asleep with a pig, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst, for Interspecies, 2009.