Anna Keleher Anna Keleher M.A Arts and Ecology, Dartington
Feedback station by Claire Cote
Smell pots to engage the senses
Dartmoor scratching post rock
Almond tree sap jelly
Interview with Cave
Listening tree
Ammonite
Stories Exhibition
Good luck marzipan wedding sweets
Exploring the post Ice=Age landscape of the Marble Arches Geopar
Transport to the Ice-Age
Marble Arches Geopark - Summer 2010
Dreaming the Ice Age
Ecoscape
bog butter preparations
Excavating the bog pantry
Approaching an Exchange: Dartmoor
The Exchange potentises elements of our culture
EFL students participated in our project
How do we live together?
memory tears sweat
Evolutionary space
Have a listen!
ARK Agency Research Sample Kit interior
seaweed shoe experiment
seaweed bootie
Bramble: an actor in the world
Oak talisman
Occombe Farm string
Talking with things
Bringing the pueblo alive : Tijeras Pueblo
Recording a new If you'd like to....audio installation in U.S.A
Buffalo Gourd
Dispersal/Return, University of New Mexico
Geopark structures
sled mobile
Bracken shoes
Sandal piece
Neanderthal shoe
Ice-Age journey
Ice-Age journey clothes
homemade tools for clay sculpting
Ice-Age journey Event
exchange objects in clay
Stories Exhibition
marzipan good luck wedding sweets/ object
What would you choose to share with the original inhabitants?
objects of our time for original ice-age inhabitants
Interview with potholer Les Brown
Outing in a homemade Cott
Elderflower fritters at Crom
Potholers hideaway
Jetty card, Derryvore jetty
The potency of Tea
Camauflage and collaboration
Botany expedition on Cuilcagh mountain
Truffle hound trainee Ghyllie is a miniature labradoodle
If you'd like to ... Speaks
Jelly ear fungus with if you'd like to ...Clone.
Finding Esja's lost snow shoes
"Sniffing out the future"
Bargain hunting with Ghyllie
Sniffing out the future at Berry Head National Nature Reserve
White rock rose
Dreaming and drawingClick image title for full image + text. Find News, Audio + more at foot of page.
Fast paced - imaginative - adventuresome...
Anna is a lively contemporary artist (M.A Arts and Ecology) with an experimental practice. She lives on the rim of the English Riviera Geopark and collaborates with New Mexican artist Claire Cote + the people, places and things of Global Geoparks & National Parks in UK, Spain, Eire and USA. Her imaginative storyblogs, novel podcasts and radio broadcasts challenge, inform and delight.
RADIO DREAMING is a 5-part radio adventure which whisks you off to limestone hills, fragile boglands and honeycombe caves, where you'll encounter an inspirational mythology of voices, sounds, dreams and traditional Irish music. Episodes exploring edible landscapes, wild dreams and myths of the land are sure to spark fresh curiosity leaving you eager to go out and dream your own home places alive. www.dreamingplace.eu/radio
RADIO DREAMING POD TOUR launches Radio Dreaming on community radio stations around the world. Anna and Claire travel to source at Marble Arch Caves Geopark to share sounds, stories and dreams in a bespoke Place Dreamer Pod. Visitors to their mobile installation will be invited to share a pot of tea and climb aboard to listen and dream. www.dreamingplace.eu/pod
DREAMING PLACE - a 40 day 40 night Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark adventure with collaborator Claire Coté discovering technologies to help dream ourselves and others into place in our in the places where we work, rest and play. Visit www.dreamingplace.eu
BALLAD OF BERRY HEAD.
Anna has collaborated with the people of Berry Head National Nature Reserve, in the English Riviera Global Geopark, to create a new film for Berry Head Visitor Centre. A partnership commission Smooth Space and Torbay Coast and Country Side Trust. Funded by showing in the projection room over the summer months. 2012
www.artatberryhead.co.uk
ANDALUSIAN SOUND JOURNEY - An audio foray into the Natural world and Geology of Sierra Subbeticas Geopark, Cordoba, Spain.
HOW FAR FROM HOME ARE WE ? Part travelogue, part sonic adventure, this radio saga whisks you over land and sea in search of an answer to this tantalizing question. Becky Beinart, Anna Keleher, Claire Cote and Mark Keleher howfarfromhomearewe.com/broadcasts/
PREHISTORIC ECOLOGIES
Anna Keleher and Claire Long Cote's invite others to join their experiments; excavating a bog pantry, feasting on acorn bread and churning butter by the motion of their gait. Check out " making things" on www.annakeleher.com for the results of Anna's experimental archaeology investigating how cultures form.
THE EXCHANGE
The Exchange inhabits prehistoric settlements across the world. (A Bronze Age roundhouse on Dartmoor and a Native American archaeological pueblo site in New Mexico). After tea and cake participants share objects and ideas from their own lives and cultures with the original inhabitants of the host dwelling.
What object from your own life would you choose to show the ancient inhabitants of your own home place?
IF YOU'D LIKE TO....
A fun Interactive audio piece created that engages visitors with the cultural and natural ecologies of a specific area, using altered perspectives.
Anna and Claire have been selected to participate in " Machine Wilderness" at the international Symposium of Electronic Art and Nature ISEA 2012 's in Albuquerque. http://www.isea2012.org/
ICE-AGE EXPEDITION
Anna invites the public to meet real huskies, help pack a wooden sled and model clay effigies to share with the Geopark's Ice Age inhabitants. Photos of these clay effigies are archived and stored on " making things” on www.annkeleher.com
How does Anna reach the Ice-Age and which objects will our Geopark Ancestors share with us?
RAT + TALKING WITH THINGS.
Life in the English Riviera Geopark is full of adventure and discovery. Anna experimented with ancient and modern technologies and shared her experiences via story blogs sound and image. She builds culture with peoples scattered through time and space. Discover the novel ways in which scientists and other experts can share their knowledge, in the “Speaking as Things” podcasts on www.annakeleher.com "podcasts".
This project was funded by National Lottery through Arts council England
Find out more about Anna’s journeys into Place and experience her collaborative pieces online and live. Look out for her participatory events in the "news" section of this page and on Creative Torbay newsletter.
but .....better still .....go out, have adventures and create new stories with your own home place.
http://artatberryhead.blogspot.com
http://dreamingplace.eu
http://claireandanna.com
http://axisweb.org/artist/annakeleher
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View my website http://www.dreamingplace.eu/
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Email: manikeleher@btopenworld.com
Website: http://www.dreamingplace.eu/
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My News
We made it! Radio Dreaming campaign success / Mon 8th Apr 2013
A big thankyou from from Claire and I to everyone who helped make our Radio Dreaming Kickstarter funding campaign a success. From a dance company in...
It's A Place-Dreamer Pod / Thu 4th Apr 2013
Part listening suite, part recording booth, this wee Place-Dreamer Pod is a solar-powered micro-caravan custom made for Radio Dreaming by Nigel Gurney...
Radio Dreaming Kickstarter campaign launched. / Thu 14th Mar 2013
Anna Keleher and Claire Coté have just hit the button to launch their Radio Dreaming Kickstarter campaign. The central part of their campaign is a vi...
Radio Dreaming on Riviera fm / Mon 8th Oct 2012
Amelia's Culture Show is this Thursday 11th October 6-7pm live streamed on www.riviera.fm Radio Dreaming Episode 1 Dreams, food and the edible l...
"The Matter of Technology" at ISEA12 New Mexico / Thu 20th Sep 2012
Geopark Artist Anna Keleher's international collaboration with Claire Coté is shaped by the technologies of the past, future and present. So they are ...
My Events
Machine Wilderness Show / Thu 20th Sep 2012 to Sun 6th Jan 2013 (4 months)
West Country Artist Anna Keleher and New Mexican Artist Claire Coté are to show an interactive audio installation in the main exhibition "Machine Wil...
ISEA 2012-13 Re-envisioning Art, Technology and Nature / Thu 20th Sep 2012 to Sun 6th Jan 2013 (4 months)
ISEA 2012-13 Re-envisioning Art, Technology and Nature Symposium + Collaboration West Country Artist Anna Keleher and her New Mexican collaborat...
Over the Horizon / Sat 21st Jul to Sun 30th Sep 2012 (2 months)
My film short " The Ballad of Berry Head" will play out in the visitor centre projection room from 21st July through the summer. I was commissioned to...
60 minute art critic / Wed 19th to Sat 29th Oct 2011 (2 weeks)
"60 minute art critic" Lori Waxmans will be at The Exchange, Penzance on Weds19th engaging with the work of Westcountry artsits and writing them re...
Dreaming Place / Fri 3rd Jun to Tue 12th Jul 2011 (1 month)
Dreaming Place is a 40 day/ 40 nights research adventure; a collaboration between Anna Keleher, Claire Long Cote and the people,places and things of t...
My Opportunities
RAT + talking with things / Tue 10th Nov 2009
I'm feeling lucky as I have created a new job for myself. The best news is I am paying myself for doing it. But before I begin work I have to convince...
Dreamer of new ways of being in the world / Tue 21st Oct 2008
The job of an artist is strange and you often don't get paid. But ... it leads you to view the world differently and help others to do so. Its true th...
My Videos
The Pond: an animated film clip
The Pond is a short animation Anna made during her "residency" at Art Farm Project. It features Middle Rocombe Farm pond and the pondside cabin.
http://vimeo.com/32170724
If You’d Like to….. Albuquerque is a fun audio installation with strong adaptive potentials that prepares us to inhabit imaginative worlds and the liv...
My Audio
The Ballad of Berry Head
The Ballad of Berry Head (21mins 02 secs) Moving image/ audio installation Anna Keleher (M.A Arts and Ecology) for Guard House Visitor Centre projec...
How far from home are we? A sonic radio journey
How far from Home are we? Part travelogue, part sonic adventure, this audio saga whisks you over land and sea in search of the answer to this tantali...
If you'd Like to ..... Dartmoor at YHA Bellever, Have a listen.
Audio extract created for Dartmoor National Park. Autumn 2008 If You’d Like to... Dartmoor by Anna Keleher and Claire Long This audio installation wh...
A Sonic journey ( Approaching an Exchange: Dartmoor)
This Anna and Claire's first audio journey was conceived as a preparative journey for participants on the first leg of their journey by van form Darti...
return journey" Approaching an Exchange"
Claire and Anna created this piece from audio footage collected during the live 'Exchanges' at the Bronze Age hut circle over the course of about 6 mo...
My Spaces
Machine Wilderness Exhibition
West Country Artist Anna Keleher and New Mexican Artist Claire Coté are to show an interactive audio installation in "Machine Wilderness" , ISEA12 in...

































































Creative Torbay
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Torbay Arts Development Officer
Congratulations Anna on your recent Arts Base Award! Its fantastic to have your work in the Bay at events such as the Geopark Festival.