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Language of Life: Language of Humanity

  • Researches a code of language to co-create nature culture via art and contemplative practices .

  • Examines what we can learn from nature, inner nature and each other by being and experimenting.

  • Investigates if Mummy Harmony’s use of the mixed media Silent Conversation Installation can become a means of research

  • Creates platform to include and advocate for work of other artists, institutions, etc.

  • Aims to dissolve the sense of separation from nature/the surroundings/life/each other          

  • Accesses/collects and shares information about our environment

  • Adopts radical humility to become open to engaging with the unfamiliar

  • Plays string figures as per Donna Haraway’s description:

    “string figures are like stories, they propose and enact patterns for participants to inhabit’. (…) Playing games of string figures is about giving and receiving patterns. (…) String figures require holding still in order to receive and pass on. (…) These string figures are thinking as well as making practices, pedagogical practices and cosmological performances” (‘Staying with the Trouble’)

 
 

CODE OF LANGUAGE

Can we explore, experiment and be together to find a code of language to co-create together a new story to open ourselves to unexpected collaborations and combinations in order to support a paradigm based on wholeness, belonging, conscious relationships and relational being.?

We are doing this through THE SILENT CONVERSATION INSTALLATION. It consists of questions to pre-chosen themes. YOU give answers and they are shared with others to interact with and you can interact with the answers from others.

 

Let’s create a space for a cultural dialogue

 
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About

MARIA WOJDYLO KELLY

Her goal is to investigate artistic modes as one of the means of research to establish a code of language supporting a shift towards a new paradigm based on wholeness, belonging, conscious relationships and relational being. She wishes to direct your attention to what stories we tell and create and ‘which stories tell stories as a practice of caring and thinking’ and being (D.Haraway). This is done by co-creating the world that has not been fully revealed.

She believes in imagination, adventure, experimenting, being and interconnectedness.

 

PAST EVENTS/PUBLICATIONS/CONFERENCES


Events:

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//  Charging Water Performance from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Sukhi’s India, Wicklow Town. 14.08.2020.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//  from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Spoken Word Performance. Art-Science Symposium: Emergency Response Time. Dartington Hall, UK, 15.11.2019. Art.Earth + Science Walden.

3. Logic.Exchange.Grassroots of the Land and Her Conversations with Cows.(2)// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Photo Exhibition, Poetry, Live-Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance. Fota Arboretum and Gardens, 02-14.04.2019. Cork Lifelong Learning. 

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//  from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Spoken Word Performance. Many Tongues of Cork. Meade’s, 21.03.2019.

3. Logic.Exchange.Grassroots of the Land and Her Conversations with Cows.(1) // from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Photo Exhibition, Poetry, Live-Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance. Cork City Library, Cork City, IRL. 19 – 23.03.2019.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//  Exhibition, from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Planting Celebration Procession Performance  with Comfrey: Marieke Bosman, Maria Minguella, Alexander Edgar, Nano Nagle Place, IRL. 26.01.2019.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.(6)//  Exhibition, from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Poetry, Live-Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance with Alexander Edgar and Live-Sound Installation by Maria Minguella, Nano Nagle Place, IRL. 26-27.01.2019. 

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//  Exhibition, from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Zolala Klub, Siopa Gan Ainm, Centre, Cork, IRL. 09.01.2019.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//  Planting Celebration Performance from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Kino, Cork, IRL. 05.01.2019. Curated by First Fortnight. 

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.(5)// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Photo Exhibition, Poetry, Live-Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance. Fota Arboretum & Gardens, IRL. 01.10.-02.11.2018.

3. Logic.Exchange.Grassroots of the Land and Her Conversations with Cows.// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Multi-media collaborative Performance with James F Kelly, Helena Palmer, Gillian Mcilroy. Heritage Week. Cork City Libraries, 57-61 Grand Parade, Centre, Cork, IRL. 25.08.2018.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.(4)// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Photo Exhibition, Poetry, Live-Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance. Fitzgerald Park, Mardyke Walk, Cork, IRL. 16-27.07.2018.

”Ireland’ poem by Maria Wojdylo Kelly read by James Francis Kelly, Home by the Lee, Cork World Book Fest. Cork City Libraries, 57-61 Grand Parade, Centre, Cork, IRL.  28.04.2018.

Moving Image Poetry Stream, Mummy Harmony: Maria Wojdylo Kelly and Helena Palmer, Art/Literature and Dance Performance. Poetry Day Ireland. Cork City Libraries, 57-61 Grand Parade, Centre, Cork, IRL.  26.04.2018.

‘1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web. Procession Journey Performance’. Multi-media Performance. The Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street, Cork City, IRL. 21.04.2018.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.(3)// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. with Mick O’Shea’s Blind Spot  (Sound Composition Recording Installation) and Maria Minguella’s  live Sound Showers. Photo exhibition, Poetry, Live – Research Installation, Installations, Spoken Word Performance. Cork Photo Festival. The Elizabeth Fort, Barrack Street, Cork City, IRL. 05.-25.04. 2018. Curated by Louise Maher and Naomi Smith.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.//from Language of Life: Language of Humanity.: Movement-Image-Light – Body Printmaking Performance. Multi-media Performance. The Work Shed. Circus Factory, Centre Park Road, Cork City, IRL. 25.02. 2018.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.(2) // from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Photo Exhibition, Poetry, Live – Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance. Cork City Libraries, 57-61 Grand Parade, Centre, Cork, IRL.  30.01. – 17.02.2018. Curated by City of Sanctuary and UCC.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Multi-media Performance. Cork St.Peter’s, North Main Street, Centre, Cork, IRL.  06.01.2018.  

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.(1)// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Photo Exhibition, Poetry, Live – Research Installation, Spoken Word Performance. Cork St.Peter’s, North Main Street, Centre, Cork, IRL.  04.01 – 27.01.2018.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Multi-media Performance. Zolala Klub, Siopa Gan Ainm, Centre, Cork, IRL.  13.09.17.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web. Spoken Word Performance,// from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. O’Bheal, Cork, IRL.  17.07.17.

3. Logic.Exchange.Grassroots of the Land and Her Conversations with Cows. //from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. The Gab Storytelling Competition, Church of the Resurrection, Blarney, IRL.  30.04.17.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.// Photo Exhibition, from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. Zolala Klub, Siopa Gan Ainm, Centre, Cork, IRL.  12.04.17.

2. Potential.Transformation.Be like Bees. Storytelling, from Language of Life: Language of Humanity.The Gab Storytelling, The Roundy, Cork. IRL.  20.03.17.

1. Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web.Which Wolf will you Choose? Performance, from Language of Life: Language of Humanity. The Gab Storytelling, Church of Resurrection, Blarney, IRL.  30.12.16.

 

Conferences:

‘Self Expression and Self-Reflection through Performance Poetry’. Poetry in Motion: Spoken Word Poetry and What It Means Today, Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick (Ireland), 26.04.2018.

‘Ethical Self in Between Interpreter’s Selves: Theory in a Hug of Practice’. Ethics and Literature: First International Conference, University of Porto (Portugal), 21-23 May 2015.

‘What is What – Cinematic Meaning Derived through Spoken Words versus Sounds that Can be Seen’. Changing Times: Performances and Identities on Screen, University of Lisbon (Portugal), 7-9 November 2012.

‘Sounds of Silence: A Comparative Study of Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Artist (2011)’. Cinema in the Interstices. Alphaville Inaugural Conference, University College Cork (Ireland), 7-9 September 2012.

‘The Power of Sport: Walt Whitman’s Presentation of Democracy and Philip Roth’s Presentation of a Jewish American Identity’. Global Games, Global Goals, Institute for American Studies, University of Leipzig (Germany), 30-31 March 2012.

Publications:

‘Nature – Human Being – Humanity. In the Search for a Common Language in the Artistic Project Language of Life: Language of Humanity by Mummy Harmony’ Maria Wojdylo Kelly (2020) in Ewa Ogrodzka-Mazur, Grzegorz Blahut, Gabriela Piechaczek-Ogierman (eds.) Getting to Know Cultures: Towards Anthropological and Multicultural Education. Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek.



‘Sounds of Silence: Sound in The Artist and Sunset Boulevard‘ Maria Wojdylo (2018) ‘Sounds of Silence: Sound in The Artist and Sunset Boulevard’ In de Morris Beja, Suzana Ramos, Cecilia Beecher Martins, José Duarte, and Ellen Carol Jones (eds.) Cinematic Narratives. Transatlantic Perspectives. Edições Humus.



Safety.Sanctuary.Set of Web, Maria Wojdylo Kelly//Mummy Harmony (2018) In Russell Berry (ed.) Solstice Sounds vol V.



‘Four Poems’ Maria Wojdylo Kelly (2018) in Paul Casey (ed.) ‘A Journey Called Home’.