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://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.

Monday, September 26, 2011

drawings from Estonia

During my residency in Moks, Centre for art and social practice, Mooste, Estonia this year I did some drawings.

The bridle broke

Nervous Around Horses proved to be a very challenging piece to install. The Vets office had some difficulties with it - the challenges of showing work in a public space takes all parties involved to be open to it. However, miscommunications led to the work being lost in the politics. Im grateful however to the Pets shop for hosting it with such welcome.


The Pet Shop, Skibereen

Liquid -Vedelik come to Ennistymon

The Estonian based art group came to Ennistymon this August for a week to partake in the Power of Local, a cultural festival.

"Pink Wall, Parliment Street, Ennistymon" was the final intervention orchestrated by myself with everyone present invited to make a huge map of the art links, naming the places we are all linked to through our art projects.

Throughout the weekend the shared sense of creativity buzzed and filled our hearts. I showed my performance piece on video "Raadi airport" that was made in Tartu, 2010.



Michael Walsh created an installation in a disused shop, using

100 empty flour bags that he had previously designed for a flour company in Estonia.