solo
to trace the origins of her madness, O’Neill channels her lifelong passion for archiving into a creative practice based on memory, research, and translation. using her invented movement system Symptom Notation, O’Neill pulls from Labanotation’s sign methodology, kinesthetics, and her lived experiences as a Mad child + woman to create videos and performances that articulate negotiations of visibility, the mental as physical, and the paranormal as crip metaphor. she queers space/time through crafted environments of multimodal seating, projection, and layers of material, to elicit a spoken curation of fractured poetry, statistics, and memoir. O’Neill aims to capture the complex and ephemeral peculiarities of madness to critically destabilize the rapid, compulsory able-bodied/minded mythologizing of hidden disabilities.
collaborative
O’Neill directs movement + lecture-based calls to action with disabled participants. as an extension to her solo practice, O’Neill facilitates her movement system as a tool for community building + radical hospitality. her most recent collaboration unbecoming hiding place (2019) was a mass reflection on “passing” shared amongst ten Chicago-based disabled performers (O’Neill included) who substituted choreographed movements as indicators of symptomatic impact. although she predominantly creates exclusively with crip performers, O’Neill hosts pop-up collaborative workshops in gallery, academic, + conference settings to engage participants of all abilities in choreographing emotions.