Finding Portlaoise - Urban Artistic Interventions was a very interesting project that I managed for the Arts Office in Laois in October, 2007. Working with Arts Officer Muireann Ni Domhaill we curated 11 performance artists to artistically intervene in the day to day lives of the people of Portlaoise. The Space Shuttle was brought from Ground Up in Clare to a public meeting park in the centre of Portlaoise and used a performance space, art gallery and art classroom.
On of the exciting participatory projects was run by Jake an international hair stylist. She kindly volunteered to work with the travelling community offering them the opportunity to train with her.
After the event there was a day seminar discussing what we as artists found in Portlaoise and questioning the notion of interventionist performance art and its role in our culture.
Arts practice research processes, performances and artworks by interdisciplinary, movement-based artist/curator/choreographer Maria Kerin
Maria Kerin(-Walsh), artist curator choregrapher.
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