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 18, 2013

Estonian Review of work

"Meeting Marks" exhibition in Tartu


Maria Kerin and friends: MEETING MARKS
Embodied Creativity Process: live performance each workday 1:45 pm Tartu Centre For Creative Industries January 19th – February 2nd 2013
Over 2 weeks in the Gallery Space, Maria Kerin will develop an exhibition entitled “Meeting Marks” using her Embod- ied Creativity Process: engaging with 10 Estonian artists and writers and responding through embodied movement with mark-making and framing the response with new media.

Embodied Creativity Process


EMBODIED CREATIVITY PROCESS

The concept offers a structure to stimulate personal creativity by using
·      embodied movement (meditation, mindfulness, groundedness, awareness)
·      exploring materials (ashes and tracing paper) in the stairwell space and then
·      frame through new media (internet/smart phones) this personal creativity as a channel for this creative experience.


The Workshop:
In devising the Embodied Creativity Process Maria Kerin combines 3 different creative disciplines: Fine Art, Contemporary Dance, and New Media, devised from her 14 years of a professional trans-disciplinary art/dance practice. Maria uses a specific combination of these areas as tools to access embodied creativity, essentially the source of our individual creativity. By offering specific skills and techniques in embodied movement, art making and new media blended together, these tools support the making of art specific to each individual.

The Process: By bringing awareness into the body as a creative organ itself, as well as the mind, and linking the inner being with the outside space, this supports the person exploring and responding creatively. This is trust based on inner listening, a fully experiential approach bringing us beyond our habits and cultural constraints.

This requires relaxed concentration and inner silence, guided listening and gentle movement. Awareness activates the sense of deep presence through grounding the body. This focus and sense of self supports people in the “unknown space”.
Ashes and tracing paper will be used for these sessions for creative mark-making.
The outcome is then framed by new media that stimulates and reveals its own process of creativity, unique to each participant, be it smart phones recording the image/space/movement, documented for internet web sites or blogs or even live internet coverage directly to an audience.

Furthermore in this form of intersection working with other artists, where we decide to meet others, the outcome is not collaborative but offers a chance to co-align, each retaining personal autonomy and independence, welcoming an unknown outcome.

Workshops are available to experienced creative individuals and for groups (visual arts and performance artists, 3rd level students, dancers, musicians, choreographers and film-makers). Please wear loose clothing and bring some kind of recording devise - mobile phones, sound recorder, laptop and video cameras. Movement is minimal, open mind essential. All welcome.