Maria Kerin- artist curator, choreographer: January 2017

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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbqEyXulALA

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, January 9, 2017

PhD Arts Practice -UL 2015 onwards

In September 2015 I started a Structured PhD arts practice in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University Limerick, initially with Dr.Mary Hunan as supervisor and when she retired, Dr. Niamh NicGhabhann kindly took over.

Topic: how my body based arts practice informs my curatorial practice

The Space In between- Performance in the Courthouse Gallery July 2016

Exhibiting with Sarah Fuller in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, July 2016 , inspired by previous movement research we had investigated together and developed separately in our own unique ways looking at the space in between...

I presented a series of performances each day for a week in the gallery space, incorporating monologue and embodied movement based on dna inheritence from my grandmother. Ende Bowe's photo of Gran was included in the live performance.

Experimental Heritage, Oland, Sweden, November 2016

Invited by Helle Kvamme to give a workshop using movement practice as method to inquire through the body for new knowledge in experimental archeology in the project
Kamprad Experimental heritage.

I explored the theme of Experimental heritage though non verbal communication with a wonderful group of open minded people.

Helsinki, Huuto Gallery, Sept 2016

4 O'Clock TEAS, an Outrider platform for dialogue and meeting artists curators at Huuto Gallery, Helsinki, funded by Culture Ireland, Hosted by Maria Kerin and Fiona O'Dwyer

The starting point for conversations is our varied relation to time and displacement, echoed in Fiona O'Dwyers work on exhibit in Huuto gallery, 10-26th Sept.

Fiona O’Dwyer’s exhibition I Went Up the Mountain With Someone Else's Story and Came Down With My Own centers around the idea and reality of Human Movement: taking as a starting point, her connection to her family’s migration and displacement in 1950’s Ireland. Her ideas are articulated through the works’ performative nature, its relation to place and time, and its materiality.

"What comes through as a result are echoes of a distant space in time, transposed from real points on a landscape in which a narrative or sound once existed and was played out.

What has become evident however is that I forgot the future and so it goes on.” O’Dwyer, 2016

Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, Clare Arts Office and The Arts Council of Ireland