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 3, 2012

"Outrider Artists"-Merriman Summer School exhibition

"Outrider Artists" at the Merriman Summer School 2012

Curated by Maria Kerin in response to the theme of this years' Merriman Summer School:


Thriving at the Crossroads: Rural Ireland in a Globalised World.

Artists Fiona O'Dwyer and Fiona Woods exhibited drawings, photo-works, prints, sculpture and video in the Town Hall Pavillion, Lisdoonvarna, as part of "Outrider Artists.
The exhibition  was open to the public at lunch times, from the 16th to19th August, 2012, during the Merriman Summer School.

Fiona O'Dwyer, Fiona Woods and Maria Kerin are part of a loose association called Outrider Artists of which there are seven in total, all living and working in North Clare. (Fiona Woods, Judy O'Sullivan, Fiona O'Dwyer, Maria Kerin, Sarah Fuller, Maeve Collins and Jackie Askew).

Since 2009, Outrider Artists have been interested in developing friendship as praxis, theory and practice that has evolved from being located in a rural locality for over twenty years. These Outrider artists have a legacy of founding artist-led initiatives in North Clare over this time: The Courthouse Studios, Ennistymon, Mrua Gallery, Bellharbour, Trading Spaces, Ennistymon, Ground Up, Ground Up Collective.
  
This is their response to Rural Ireland in a Globalised World: friendship, hospitality and generosity, an art praxis developed through dialogue and goodwill that can engage trans-locally.

Furthermore, the geographical position on the rural west coast of Ireland has helped shape, inform and offer alternative working methods and inspired them to create a new model of working together, to engage trans-locally, through friendship, in the form of Episodes. 

This year alone they have hosted artists from Kildare, London and Tallinn, Estonia. Outrider artists have made art in Estonia and Lithuania with more exhibitions and performances taking place in Tallinn and Tartu, Estonia, 2013.

Their website outriderpress.wix.com/outriders outlines these Episodes of which there are 21 since 2009. They are grateful for part-funding support received from the Clare Arts Office.

"We place a value on meeting, pooling resources and on peer support. We are interested in forging trans-local links and exchanges through research, discussions, visits, projects, exhibitions and meals." Outrider Artists