Jacqui O’Reilly’s sound-based performance, explores persistence of vision as multi-sensory perception, instantiating time as a trans-disciplinary gesture of collective presence in the making and sharing of art. This work will be performed in collaboration with Alexandra Spencer and Laura Altman.

The concept for Time as a Sonic Gesture, emerged in response to Katelyn Geard’s artwork I Have Something to Say, (exhibited in GRAPHITE, at DRAW Space, April 2024). This work was described as a drawing ‘soft as a whisper’ in its reach beyond two dimensions.

Jacqui O’Reilly is an autistic artist and musician from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based on Gadigal Land. Her experimental practice investigates identity, place and sensory perception with a focus on sound as material, to explore social and environmental relations. O’Reilly’s work is embedded in her lifelong experience of creative adaptation, to voice sensory interconnection in deeply nuanced ways. Intimate communication with her materials and hypnotic, repetitive methods of making, shape the composition of mesmerising music, video work and live performances.

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@laura.r.altman
@alxandraspence

This is part of a research series exploring the relationship of sound to drawing, curated by Belinda Yee @belindayee

Supported by an Inner West Arts Grant and assisted by PACT.