EMBODIED CREATIVITY PROCESS
The concept offers a structure to stimulate
personal creativity by using
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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.
