Maria Kerin- artist curator, choreographer: Curatorial Research Residency at MoKS, Mooste, Estonia

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.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Curatorial Research Residency at MoKS, Mooste, Estonia

Curatorial Research Residency, MoKS, Mooste, Estonia. June 2017 and again August 2017.

My 6th year coming to MoKS; a vital artists led arts residency centre, leading the way as the heart of cutting edge contemporary practice and creativity in the Baltics, run by the talented generous artists Evelyn and John Griznich.
I was in MoKS to research "Head over Heals"and prepare for an Irish Nordic Baltic "artist curator" 2 day gathering in Puka at the end of August with gifting of practice as the meeting points between us. 15 coming from 5 countries...

With wonderful studio spaces and a large public sharing space with wooden floors, I offered daily morning movement based practice with the other artists residents there through an embodied creativity process suitable for artists of any discipline, that I have been developing for the past 12 years

MoKS is such a meeting point for Nordic Baltic creators with inspirational and informative dinner time conversations, this time with Estonian actors, Finnish screen dance artists and radical performance artists from Macedonia who are mentioned in the book Critical Art in Contemporary Macedonia.