Maria Kerin- artist curator, choreographer: October 2008

Maria Kerin(-Walsh), artist curator choregrapher.

Welcome to my blog. It introduces some of the processes and projects that I have been involved in recent years as an independent, rural based artist-curator and choreographer, working towards sustaining a slower rural based lifestyle, through creativity that also supports autonomy and self organisation within an inter-connective model of collaboration.

My movement-based arts practice provokes and informs a translocal artist-curatorial and choreographic practice, manifesting into peer to peer networks and systems to support collaborations presently in Ireland, Estonia and Sweden, in an interdisciplinary practice without borders.

I am particularly interested in deep listening, sensing time and opening up memories through awareness/presence as an embodied creativity process and ethical inquiry, informed through somatic principles that supports my practice concerned with our relationships with nature and consciousness. For example see blog page 'Post domestic: The future is the forest". Work with Kristina Kvamme, Sweden, since August 2019, in her walking practice that links through image and text live online on Fridays nourishes this. Ongoing explorations with Rachel Sweeney through Articulating Thresholds expands this inquiry.

Since 2018 I've been working on translocal, transdisciplinary collaborations in experimental heritage, with Professor Bodil Petersson of Linneaus University and members of Experimental Heritage network Sweden. This has led to us forming Karum-Creevagh, a group of artists, archaeologists and ecologists from Ireland and Sweden, concerned with our future.

See www.experimentalheritage.com for a detailed archive.

See Outrider Artists.wix.com for more info on local rural networks and cross-cultural sharing.

For other online images, see my kind partner Michael Walsh's documentation of my work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqEyXulALA

https://issuu.com/michaelwalsh/docs/10_days_embodied_creative_process_d

https://issuu.com/michaelwalsh/docs/future_domestic_2013_visual_diary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYpxRfzKp0&t=4s

Should you wish to contact me for more information please text 00353877711033 or email: kerinmaria@gmail.com

See www.thefloatingvillage.net for collaboration with Dr Rachel Sweeney as part of The Floating Village eco-somatic practice since 2019.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Residency and Commission- Sculpture in Kells

Sculpture in Kells Commissioned to do residency and create new work along with Aileen Lambert for Sculpture in Kells, in response to the Priory, Kells, a fringe event of the Kilkenny Arts Festival, ‘08. Worked with the primary school children, invited them to listen to the wall for sounds of the past and I photographed this task. The image was printed up 8 ft by 4 ft and left up against the Priory wall during the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

The chain link motif was carried through to gathering childrens used clothes and asking the community who visit the priory to make a prayer chain, knotting them together. This sculpture piece was then placed in the Priory but unfortunately not at the site originally chosen by the artist.