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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 her experiential foray into the "Far Distant Present" of her Home Geopark in Torbay, Devon, England. This successful project has been generously supported by National Lottery through Arts Council England and by friends, family and collaborators at home in UK and in the United States.

In 2011 Anna will travel overland to Eire and Spain to meet the experts, people, places and things of two parallel UNESCO Geoparks. She will bring us novel outcomes that may surprise and even alarm with their sense of humour and adventure. And of course there will be storyblogs and podcasts to challenge, inform and delight.

Last year 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; The Exchange, If you’d like to.. and Prehistoric ecologies. (See claireandanna.com).

Their Exchange" project has already inhabited two Bronze Age Dartmoor roundhouses and a prehistoric Native American pueblo site in New Mexico. Where will the Exchange happen next? And what objects will join the growing archive of Exchange?

Exchange Project participants select objects and ideas from their own lives and cultures which they 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.

Visitors to Great Sand Dunes National Park Visitor Center, Colorado can now listen in to a new If you'd like to audio installation by Anna and Claire while they enjoy the magnificent views over the dunes. Their playful piece gently expands visitor experience, exciting new and sometimes humorous visions of the diverse ecologies that span the Park.

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

Anna’s Geopark Festival Event Journey to the Ice-Age was a lot of fun and very well attended by the public of Goodrington Sands, Paignton. They helped to pack the sled ready for off and made clay effigies of contemporary objects to take to the ice-age inhabitants. See “ making things” on www.annkeleher.com

What will her return sled be like, what will she bring back from the Original inhabitants to share on her return journey?

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 has been using a variety of novel data generating techniques and devised a way for experts to share their knowledge with the public in the Speaking as Things Interviews. Listen to podcasts on www.annakeleher.com

Read her storyblogs on RAT + talking with things, browse the online exhibitions and listen to some quite entertaining podcasts. www.annakeleher.com

Listen to her 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. Look out for participatory events in NEWS.

http://www.annakeleher.com
http://claireandanna.com
http://axisweb.org/artist/annakeleher