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

Transport to the Ice-Age

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?

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

Dispersal/Return, University of New Mexico

sled mobile

Bracken shoes

Ice-Age journey

homemade tools for clay sculpting

Ice-Age journey Event

exchange objects in clay

Stories Exhibition

marzipan good luck wedding sweets/ object

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

Camauflage and collaboration

Botany expedition on Cuilcagh mountain

If you'd like to ... Speaks

Jelly ear fungus with if you'd like to ...Clone.

"Sniffing out the future"

Sniffing out the future at Berry Head National Nature Reserve

Dreaming and drawing

Three men in a Pod at Shannon Pot,

Radio is a great collaborator

Place -Dreamer Pod

Project participants and visitors

Mary-Jane

Bee suits

Artist- Writer- Adventurer

Anna is a lively contemporary artist, writer and adventurer who lives on the rim of the English Riviera Geopark. Her visionary storyblogs, podcasts and radio broadcasts challenge, inform and delight.

DREAMINGPLACE:AN IRISH ADVENTURE is her first travel book. Available on Amazon Kindle it is Illustrated with drawings made in situ by Anna and her New Mexican collaborator Claire Coté.

WiLD RADIO PROJECT
Wild Radio Project shares the beauty and biodiversity of our natural world with on-line listeners in local homelands around the world.

Wild Radio Project is a platform created by Devon artist Anna Keleher to share wildlife stories, blogs and audio. Featuring Nigel Smallbones and Berry Head National Nature Reserve, English Riviera Geopark.

https://wildradioproject.wordpress.com/

DRAWING AND DREAMING WITH OTHERS
Anna uses drawing as an exploratory tool to experience the world.
Drawing is a skill that needs practice, dedication and discipline but its also a lot of fun.It´s a bit like wandering in that you never know who you´ll meet or what you´ll find along the way.

See her collaborative drawings with Claire Coté and Shelley Castle on http://www.axisweb.org/p/annakeleher/

RADIO DREAMING is a 6-part radio adventure that will whisk you off to limestone hills, fragile boglands and honeycombe caves, to 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.

RADIO DREAMING OFF-GRID - Anna and Claire join the great folk revival as they delve into sustainable living, off-grid justice and home entertainment. Listen in on www.dreamingplace.eu/radio

PLACE-DREAMER POD
An endearing micro-caravan towed behind Anna’s little Fiat van, the Pod is a solar-powered listening space and recording booth. Inside the wood and aluminium hull custom made by Diddyvans Teardrop Trailers, is a comfy space to host visitors. Under the rear hatch is a cannily designed storage space displaying props to engage and attract participatory audiences.

Place-dreamer Pod was launched in Spring 2013 at Marble Arch Caves Geopark , Ireland. Find out more about the pod journeys 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 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 with Smooth Space and Torbay Coast and Country Side Trust.
www.artatberryhead.co.uk

SNIFFING OUT THE FUTURE - A novel take on the funding crisis in the Arts. Anna colaborates with melissa Waddingham to train her mini-labradoodle Ghyllie as a truffle hound . Together they will go out and discover edible fungi

ANDALUSIAN SOUND JOURNEY - An audio foray into the Natural world and Geology of Sierra Subbeticas Geopark, Cordoba, Spain.

SPEAKING AS ...is a project featuring the non-human voices of the world that challenges the supremacy of our human perspective. In this growing archive of audio/podcasts scientists and other experts are invited to share their knowledge of some of the "things" they work with using a novel technique devised for the purpose.

TALKING WITH THINGS.
Life in the English Riviera Geopark is full of adventure and discovery. An experimental investigation into ancient and modern technologies which builds culture with peoples scattered through time and space. Outcomes include story blogs audio, podcasts and images. ( Funded by National Lottery through Arts Council England)

THE EXCHANGE
The Exchange inhabits prehistoric settlements across the world. (Bronze Age roundhouses on Dartmoor and in Marble Arch Caves Geopark and a prehistoric native American 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.

Which object from your own life would you choose to share with the ancient inhabitants of your own home place?

IF YOU'D LIKE TO....
A fun Interactive audio piece to engage visitors with the cultural and natural ecologies of a specific area, using altered perspectives. Part of " Machine Wilderness" at the international Symposium of Electronic Art and Nature ISEA 2012 's in Albuquerque http://www.isea2012.org/ and THE PASEO, Taos 2014 http://www.paseotaos.org/

Read our Multi-voiced snapshot of the event http://dreamingplaceproject.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/notes-from-the-paseo/
See if you'd like t video - http://vimeo.com/32170724

ICE-AGE EXPEDITION
A time -travel project with real huskies, a sledge and clay effigies. Anna invites the public to meet the huskies, help pack a wooden sled and model clay effigies to share with the Geopark's Ice Age inhabitants.

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 FOOD ECOLOGIES
Anna Keleher and Claire Cote invite others to excavate a bog pantry, feast on acorn bread and churn butter using the motion of their gait. This project is part of an on-going artistic investigation into how cultures form.

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 in your own home place.

http://dreamingplace.eu
http://claireandanna.com
http://axisweb.org/p/annakeleher
http://www.noddleit.com/nod/a793

View my website http://www.dreamingplace.eu/