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, February 11, 2013

Liquid Art, Cavan, European local arts programme


As part of the European Presidency, I will be working with artists from Cavan and Estonia in a "hothouse" research residency entitled Liquid Art- for 2 weeks this March in Coote Hill, Cavan.

See http://www.artscouncil.ie/en/wide/local-arts-europe.aspx
 

Images from Meeting Marks participatory performances

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Heli Kohv participating with Maria in 'Meeting Marks"


Indrik , curator of Painters Union Gallery partaking in Embodied Creative Process



Ashes from performance drawing with Marge Laast via Skype




Participatory performances in Estonia


Performance with Evelyn Muuserp. MoKS, in Tartu Centre for Creative Industries

Photos: Michael Walsh

"Meeting Marks" was an extraordinary personal creative time- After 2 weeks and 11 performances in Tartu Centre for Creative Industries, Estonia,
the photographs by Michael Walsh seem to be the art, the work arrived at through the process of Embodied Creativity.

Artists involved include:
 Fiona O'Dwyer, Outrider artist, Ireland.
 Marge Laast, Liquid member, Tallinn (Skype contact)
Kasper Aus, choreographer, Tallinn,
Heli Kohv, Ballerina, Tartu
Liina Raus, Curator, Kalidascope, Tartu.
Jaan Ulst, choreographer/dancer, Estonia
Siim Angerpiik,  Rahva Museum, Tartu
Karlote Undrits, aged 10, audience who wished to participate
Evelyn M¨üuserp, artist/co-ordinator, MoKS, Mooste, Estonia
Andri Ksontonfontov, Sirp reviewer, Tallinn (Facebook contact)
Kristin, graphic artist in Creative Industries Centre who asked to participate
Miriam McIlfennick, poet, Tallinn (Skype contact)

I am deeply grateful to them all for sharing in the process and to Michael Walsh for witnessing the art through his photographs.