Ecoscapebog butter preparationsExcavating the bog pantryApproaching 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 worldOak talismanOccombe Farm string Talking with things Bringing the pueblo alive : Tijeras Pueblo Recording a new If you'd like to....audio installation in U.S.ABuffalo Gourd Exchange: Albuquerque Dispersal/Return, University of New MexicoGeopark mud spaGeopark structuresEuropean Geopark Network sled mobile Bracken shoes Sandal piece Neanderthal shoe Ice-Age journey Ice-Age journey clothes homemade tools for clay sculpting Ice-Age journey Event Ice -Age journey huskies ready to mush contemporary objects exchange objects in clay Stories Exhibition Exchange objects in claymarzipan good luck wedding sweets/ object Exchange object in clay Stories Exhibition participant

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Anna is a lively contemporary artist and M.A Arts and Ecology Graduate who lives on the rim of the English Riviera Geopark. At home and abroad Anna shares the novel outcomes of her research with a wide public through participatory events, exhibitions, installations, storyblogs and websites. She also makes drawn-on books, animations and eco-montages. Her practice has expanded to fill both screen and airwaves and her increasingly performative pieces actively engage with diverse audiences.

Her RAT + talking with things website www.annakeleher.com documents an experiential foray into the "Far Distant Present" at her Home Geopark in Devon, England. This successful project has been supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England and by friends, family and collaborators at home in UK and in the United States.

In 2010 -2011 Anna is travelling overland to meet the experts, people, places and things of three European UNESCO Geoparks. She plans to surprise the public with novel outcomes full of humour, adventure and imagination. Follow her storyblogs and listen to podcasts that challenge, inform and delight.

Since Oct 2007 Anna and her collaborator Claire Long (New Mexico) have been investigating the prehistoric and contemporary ecologies of their homelands. They have invited others to share their discoveries; to excavate a bog pantry, feast on acorn bread and to churn their own butter using the motion of their gait. You can see what Anna has made in the last 8 months on " making things" www.annakeleher.com

In late 2009 Anna became a volunteer trail monitor in a New Mexican wilderness and hooked up with her collaborator Claire Long to make new works, chew the fat and develop existing projects and practices: The Exchange, If you’d like to, Prehistoric ecologies. (See claireandanna.com and www.annakeleher.com).

Exchange Project participants select objects and ideas from their own lives and cultures to share with the original inhabitants of prehistoric sites during which the Exchange objects themselves become potentised in the presence of a community of inhabitants from diverse times and cultures.
The "Exchange" has dwelt in two Bronze Age Dartmoor roundhouses and a prehistoric Native American pueblo site in New Mexico.

Where will the Exchange happen next? Who and what will join the growing archive of Exchange?

Visitors to Great Sand Dunes National Park Visitor Center, Colorado may experience the latest If you'd like to audio installation by Anna and Claire as they gaze over the park's magnificent dune lands. This playful piece gently expands visitor experience, exciting new and sometimes humorous visions of the diverse ecologies that span this unusual Park.

Anna’s Geopark Festival Event " Ice-Age Journey " featured real huskies, sled packing and participants made clay effigies of things from their own lives to share with the ancient inhabitants. See “ making things” on www.annkeleher.com

What will her return sled look like and what will the Original inhabitants wish to share with Global Geopark visitors?

Anna’s experience of the English Riviera Geopark has been choc full of discovery and excitement and she has enjoyed experimenting with ancient and modern technologies. She will be constructing more sleds and finding ways to share cultures with peoples scattered through time and space. She is developing novel ways for experts to share their knowledge with the public. Listen in to podcasts of the Speaking as Things Interviews on www.annakeleher.com

Visit www.annakeleher for story blogs and an online exhibitions.

Listen to her collaborative audio/radio pieces on Audio at the bottom of this page, best with earbuds.

If you would like to learn more about Anna’s projects visit www.annakeleher.com and Look out for participatory events in the NEWS section of this page.

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