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, August 28, 2017

Participants in Head over Heals, artist curator peer to peer gifting


Participants in Head over Heals, artist curator peer to peer gifting

Irish, Baltic and Nordic States:

Sven Erik Stamberg, Marge Laast and Erki Kasemets, artist curators, members of Vedelik, Tallinn, EE
Russell Browne, traditional Irish dancer, vogue and trapise artist, US/IRE
Jaan Ulst, folk and contemporary dance artist, choreographer and curator, EE
Nick and Signe Bryson, IRE and LV (Skype connection)
Rowan Geddis, UK,  based in Stockholm, Sweden
Evelyn and John Grizinich, MoKS, artists and arts organisers, MoKS, Mooste, Estonia 
Kaarina , Huuto gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Tanel Rander, artist and curator, EE

Signe Pucene, SERDE, Latvia, will arrive for the weekend before the event and start the research sharing then..

Host: 
Michael Walsh, graphic designer/photographer, IRE/EE

Curator:
Maria Kerin, IRE

Others interested via internet connection:  Helle Kvamme, Yellow Box, Oland, Sweden
Trudi Van der Elsen, Clare, Ireland
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Russell Brown and Michael Walsh were intrinsic to the formation of Head over Heals and helped develop the schedule with insigthful contribution from Signe Pucena, artist curator at SERDE, Latvia.

Signe Pucena curator of SERDE, Latvia, here with daughter Trine, came the weekend before the event to start the gifting process with a focused walk in the forests picking mushrooms and herbs and preparing a meal
Signe finds herbs from the land to prepare a tea mix for the group to inspire us!

Signe Pucena and Trine have a time for reflection in Puka on the raft.
Drawing our way into the weekend structure, Michael Walsh, Russell Brown and Maria taking photo
Visualising the forthcoming weekend, Michael Walsh with Russell Brown


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