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.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Chris's Chorus, May 2015


 May 2015
“At the still point of the turning world” is brought to you by Age & Opportunity in association with Clare County Arts Office. Artists Maria Kerin and Eleanor Feely celebrate the creativity of concertina player Chris Droney through dance, performance and image. The artists are working on a participatory dance piece based on Chris’s hand movements, his connection with the audience and his performance style. 
It will be performed on the 1st of May in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, at 4pm, with participants from the Ennistymon Community Hospital and others from the locality. Following the performance, fellow Clare concertina player Jack Talty will interview Chris about his composing and unique style of playing. All are welcome to this unique multimedia celebration of one of Irelands finest traditional Irish musician, now in his nineties. 

After this launch of Bealtaine festival celebrating creativity as we age, the artists will then tour with Chris to day care centres in the County throughout the month of May, to give them an opportunity to meet and hear Chris play, learn the hand dance and participate in Chris’s Chorus. 

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