Kreider + O’Leary are a poet and an architect who collaborate to make performance, installation and time-based media work in relation to sites of cultural interest and political significance.
Key Publications
Interface Architecture
Focusing on the ‘Interface Areas’ that separate Nationalist and Unionist communities in Belfast, this project examines the potential for transformation of urban areas that have been neglected through the course of political conflict …
Sabarmati Vector
Undertaking field research in 2017, we followed the route of Gandhi’s Salt March throughout Gujarat, India, as part of our overall research into Gandhi’s political thought and action …
Cifra
Through ‘Cifra’ we construct a transient memorial figure for the Casa de los Nombres while using the experience of working on-site as a method of studying the principles and practices of the radical pedagogical experiment that is Ciudad Abierta (Open City) …
Edge City
In Edge City, we explore the maritime edges of Lisbon from the Ponte Vasco da Gama to the Ponte 25 de April near the Alcántara Docks …
Light Vessel Automatic
In Light Vessel Automatic, we conduct a guided tour en-promenade through the Tate, moving between specific details of the building’s fabric to wider historical, political, philosophical and aesthetic concerns …
Gorchakov’s Wish
Gorchakov’s Wish is a split-screen video piece engaging with the final three scenes of acclaimed Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (1983), including original filmic locations around Italy …
LA Tapped
LA Tapped is a spatial enactment of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Here we perform the building as per Frederic Jameson’s reading of it as a model of postmodern architecture and allegory for the logic of late capital …
Video Shakkei
Drawing from the Japanese practice of shakkei, or ‘borrowed landscape’, here we engage with a number of carefully selected sites in Japan — from ancient Shinto spaces of ritual in Ise to the futuristic Umeda Sky building in Osaka — to enact a series of of spatial performances, fourteen in total …
Eight Rooms
The first line of the poem ‘Eight Voices' reads: ‘To piece together place as though it were a memory’. The question underlying Eight Rooms becomes how to do so. Working in relation to a derelict wing of the Cork City Gaol or ‘Women’s Prison’ in Cork City, Ireland …