'Tract' 2006 Press

Although the project itself attracted no local press. Frank Rurhmund wasn't interested even after having a chat with James Green, gallery director. No suprises there then! However the national and then international press got hold of the story and it literally went global. The tract website http://www.tract-liveart.co.uk/ had over 8,000 visits in less than two hours on the night of Kira's performance. We had threats from animal rights acitivists and had to put ion place an extensive risk assessment that took into account attacks, firebombs, riot etc. It was also the first perfromance that I'd been involved in where we hired two undecover security guards.

The first link is a fairly typical story from the Daily Mail, otheres followed with varying degrees of distortion and untruths. Google (Kira O reilly Newlyn) and you will see the full extent of the coverage.

Local and radio 2 also paid the story a lot of attention.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401165&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source