Emily O’Connor is an artist working in video and performance. Her practice advocates a rethinking of the body and desire as informed by corporeal feminist and queer theory and the sciences, particularly entomological theory. O’Connor completed her Honours year in Performance & Theatre Studies at the University of New South Wales at the end of 2013 graduating with first class and winning the Philip Parsons Prize for her thesis. She is currently undergoing a Masters of Time Based Art at COFA. O’Connor is a core and founding member of performance collective Hissy Fit (Nat Randall, Jade Muratore, Emily O’Connor). She has completed internships with the entomology department at CSIRO, Canberra and the Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin. She has completed residencies at the National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra, NES Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland, Vitalstatistix, Adelaide, Bundanon Trust, NSW and Performance Space, Sydney.
