Kreider + O’Leary are a London-based art & architecture studio who make installations, performances and multi-media works, often in relation to sites of architectural and cultural interest. Since 2003, they have worked collaboratively to construct work in prisons, churches, military sites, film locations, landscape gardens and desert environments, as well as in more traditional gallery venues in the UK as well as internationally in Europe, the US, Australia, and Japan.

> Dr. Kristen Kreider is a practicing artist and poet. Working between the Slade School of Fine Art and the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, she completed a practice-based PhD in 2008 that developed a 'material poetics' at the crossover of poetry, fine art and spatial practice (Toward a Material Poetics: Sign, Subject, Site). Formerly a Lecturer in BA Fine Art Studio at Goldsmiths College of Art and Teaching Fellow at both the Slade and the Bartlett, Kristen is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London.

> James O'Leary is a practicing artist and architect. He graduated with distinction from the Masters programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he also completed his Diploma as a member of the interactive architecture workshop. James has previously been a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art and Principal Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art & Design. He is currently a Diploma Unit Master at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where he runs Diploma/M.Arch Unit 14 and the Post-Graduate 'Design Realisation' Programme.

website:
www.kreider-oleary.net

+ For recent news and events see: http://www.kreider-oleary.net/news.htm
+ For work and projects see: http://www.kreider-oleary.net/work.htm
+ For detailed notes on projects see: http://www.kreiderandoleary.wordpress.com

+ selected exhibitions / performances:
2011 : Gorchakov's Wish / Performance for Video at The Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, UK
2010 : Allegory of the Five Elements / Live Performance at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, UK
2010 : The Edge of Emily's Desk / Video Installation at The Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, UK
2010 : LA Tapped / Site-Specific Performance, Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles, California, USA
2010 : Post-Performance Drawings / The International Centre for Drawing, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
2009 : Video Shakkei: Space, Performance, Drawing / Installation at The Centre for Drawing, London, UK
2009 : Video Shakkei / 14 Site-Specific Performances in Kyoto, Japan
2009 : Immolation Triptych / Drawing Performance at The Drawing Field, London, UK
2009 : Kino Haiku / Installation in Chelsea Triangle Space, London, UK
2009 : Alba Lunedí / Exhibition of Performance Documentation at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
2008 : Fall (An Allegory) I / Performance for Film in Triangle Space, London, UK
2008 : Fall (An Allegory) II / Live Performance at The Betsey Trotwood, London, UK
2008 : Alba Lunedí / Site-Specific Performance at Bagno Vignoni, Italy
2007 : 5 exercises for the voice + 5 more / Live Performance at Woburn Studios, London, UK
2006 : Cell / Video Installation at Art X Contemporary Art Exhibition in Toyama, Japan
2005 : Termini / Video Work / Rome, Italy
2005 : Eight Rooms / Installation at Triskel, Cork, Ireland
2005 : The Edge of Emily's Desk / Video Installation at Woburn Studios, London, UK
2004 : s.i.g.n.a.l. / Performance and Installation at Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2004 : Untitled II (for M.) / Installation at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2004 : Just Above a Whisper / Live Performance at bookartbookshop in London, UK
2004 : I, at the threshold of an interdiction –; / Text Installation at bookartbookshop, London, UK
2003 : In the Midst / Installation for In Light of Transient Aims …, The Swiss Church, London, UK
2003 : Dead Space / Video Work for Queen Street Urban Display, Cardiff Festival, Wales, UK
2003 : To Come This Far. To Have Left … / Installation in WWII Flak Bunkers, Dover, UK
2003 : Gesturing Toward the Ellipsis / Installation at the The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2003 : Wall: A Dialogue / Installation, Urban Intervention, London, UK
2003 : Question (for S./V.) / Video Work screened at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, UK
2001 : Flow / Interactive Video Space (with Jason Bruges), Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2001 : Ode to Undoing / Installation for SPOOL, London, UK
2001 : on : fear / Performance and Exhibition at The Foundry, Old St., London, UK
1999 : 104 Kilotonne Idea, Wendover Air Base, Nevada, USA
1997 : Caoineadh Art O'Laoghaire / Design for Performance, Kilkrea Friary, Co. Cork, Ireland
1996 : In-Action / Performance at Read Gallery, KIAD & Black Space, UKC, Canterbury, UK

+ project funding awards:
2008 : CCW Research Award Funding
2006 : Irish Arts Council Bursary Award
2005 : Malcolm Hughes Memorial Bursary
2005 : UCL Graduate Research Fund Projects Award
2004 : Irish Arts Council Commission Award
2004 : Jean Spencer Memorial Bursary
2004 : UCL Graduate Research Fund Projects Award

+ residencies:
2011 : The Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, UK
2009 : The Centre for Drawing, London, UK
2005 : Limerick City Prison, Limerick, Ireland
2004 : Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
1999 : Unit 16@Centre for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Nevada, USA    

+ publications:
> 2010 : 'Memento Mori'
[ ] Artists Pages published in Performance Research, Volume 15, Number 1 (May 2010)
> 2010 : ‘Video Shakkei: Event-Space, Performance and Time-Based Drawing’
[ ] Paper published in proceedings for ‘Drawing Out 2010: Festival and Conference of Drawing’
> 2009 : ‘Constructing Atmospheres: A Phenomenology of the Film Image and Its Relation to Place’
[ ] Paper published in proceedings for ‘Architecture and Phenomenology Second International Conference'
> 2006 : ‘Reflections on Cork 2005'
[ ] Article published in Icon magazine, London, UK
> 2005 : Eight Rooms
[ ] Limited Edition (500) Artists' Book published for Cork European Capital of Culture programme 2005
> 2005 : 'Fabrication as Critical Method'
[ ] Paper published in East of Eros (Ed. Nigel Coates) Royal College of Art architecture papers, London, UK
> 2005 : 'FAULT/line'
[ ] Paper published in East of Eros (Ed. Nigel Coates) Royal College of Art architecture papers, London, UK
> 2000 : 'Fugue' and 'Tribute to Time Present and Time Past'
[ ] Poem published in Smile the Weird Joy, Ragged Raven Press, UK
> 2000 : 'The Stones of Inis Oirr' and 'The Descending Order of Genesis'
[ ] Poems published in Plume, Rainbow Press, UK

+ conferences / symposia / lectures / talks
> 2011 : Undergraduate Architecture jury, Architectural Association, London, UK
[ ] critics panel for Architecture Unit 12
> 2011 : Procedures & Enquiries 5, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
[ ] paper:  'On: Intervention'
> 2010 : Postgraduate Diploma Architecture jury, Architectural Association, London, UK
[ ] critics panel for Postgraduate Architecture Unit 6
> 2010 : Sexuate Subjects : Politics, Poetics, Ethics, at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, UK
[ ] paper: ‘Time, Place and Empathy: Material Poetics and the Film Image’
> 2010 : Intermediate Architecture Unit 2 jury, Architectural Association, London, UK
[ ] critics panel for Undergraduate Architecture
> 2010 : Emily Dickinson International Society Conference: Rothermere Institute, Oxford University, UK
[ ] paper: ‘Lyric Encounters: The Material Poetics of Emily Dickinson’s Later Manuscript Pages’
> 2010 : Drawing Out 2010: Festival and Conference of Drawing, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
[ ] paper: ‘Video Shakkei: Event-Space, Performance and Time-Based Drawing’
> 2010 : Guests @ Grays, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
[ ] talk: ‘Legible Spaces: The Work of Kreider + O’Leary’
> 2010 : Talk on NaoKo Takahashi, Image Music Text Gallery, London, UK
[ ] gallery talk: ‘Cities, Bodies, Stories: Explorations of Perforated Space’
> 2010 : Theorising Practices Lecture Series, Bartlett School of Architecture
[ ] talk: ‘Site and Generative Process in Gorchakov’s Wish’
> 2009 : Spaces and Narrations Lecture series, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
[ ] Lecture: 'Video Shakkei: Space, Performance, Drawing'
> 2009 : Translated Acts 3 Symposia, ICFAR and Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, London, UK
[ ] talk: ‘Kreider + O’Leary: Recent Works’
> 2009 : TALKS series, Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, London, UK
[ ] talk: ‘Video Shakkei: Live Drawing and Borrowed Landscape’
> 2009 : Agendas, Agendas, Agendas, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK
[ ] forum discussion with Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Professor Stephen Farthing, Rubert Hartley, Kreider + O'Leary
> 2009 : Procedures & Enquiries 3 Symposia, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
[ ] paper:  'Drawing Time'
> 2009 : Architecture & Phenomenology 2 Conference, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
[ ] paper: 'Constructing Atmospheres: A Phenomenology of the Film-Image and Its Relation to Place'
> 2009 : Postgraduate Architecture School jury, Arkitektskolen, Aarhus, Denmark
[ ] critics panel for Postgraduate Architecture
> 2009 : Greenwich Forum, University of Greenwich, London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Constructing Atmosphere - Andrei Tarkovsky's Film Image'
> 2008 : Space in the City: Arts, Architecture and Engagement, Rokeby Gallery, London, UK
[ ] panel discussion: Kreider & O'Leary, Fashion Architecture Taste, Office for Subversive Architecture
> 2008 : Procedures & Enquiries, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
[ ] paper:  'Spilling Ink in the Digital Void'
> 2008 : Enhancing Curricula, Lycée Francais, New York, USA
[ ] paper + showcase:  'iSD Open Data: Open Source Information Portal'
> 2008 : Studio Wolf D. Prix jury, Vienna Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
[ ] critics panel
> 2007 : Project X, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK
[ ] talk: 'Moving Through Eight Rooms: Site-Specificity and Performance in Art Practice
> 2007 : The Mobility of the Line, University of Brighton, UK
[ ] paper: 'Syntax. Sequence. Site - & Speaking the Line'
> 2006 : Contemporary Women's Experimental Poetry Festival, Cambridge University, UK
[ ] paper: 'Page, Space and Emily Dickinson's Material Poetic Gestures'
> 2005 : The Inclusive Studio, Royal College of Art, UK
[ ] panel discussion: 'Design Thinking through Virtual Environments'
> 2005 : The Inclusive Studio, CEBE Conference on Architectural Education, Royal College of Art, London, UK
[ ] paper:  'How Architecture Lost the Will to Live'
> 2005 : Research Spaces, Slade School of Fine Art / Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Faces and Folds in 'the vastest earthly day': Page and Spatial Practice in Dickinson's Later Writings'
> 2005 : Discursive Spaces: Identity, Memory, Meaning, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
[ ] paper: 'Performing the Line: Memory and Present-ness in Fiona Templeton's Cells of Release
> 2005 : The Dromocratic Condition - Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
[ ] paper:  'Dislocated Perceptions:  The Contemporary Subject and the City in Process'
> 2004 : Theory in Practice 2, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
[ ] paper: 'Collection II: Objects toward a Material Poetics'
> 2004 : Theory in Practice 2, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
[ ] paper: 'Counter Sites and Nested Entities'
> 2004 : (Dis)locating Specificity, Slade School of Fine Art / Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Lyric Atmospheres: The Making of Untitled II (for M.)'
> 2004 : Contemporary Writing Environments, Brunel University, London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Untitled I (for M.): Refiguring Lyric through a Material Poetics'
> 2004 : Unit 2 Gallery, London, UK
[ ] gallery talk: 'Anxious Cartographies: A Story of Bodies and Cities'
> 2004 : TALK Series, Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Turning the Line: Toward a Spatial Practice of Poetry'
> 2004 : Text . Space . Writing, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Punctuating the Image'
> 2002 : TALK series, Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Collection: Writings toward a Material Poetics'
> 2001 : Unit 14 Conference on Spatial Interaction, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
[ ] paper: 'Cut-Up Space: The Architecture of Sample and Loop'

Updated: October 2011