Rona Kennedy

Transdisciplinary artist, writer and researcher

I am a British-Belgian transdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher. I build worlds, creating cracks: temporary autonomous sites for experiment and agency.
In my artistic practice, Installation-performances, (sound) stories, and workshops are ways to start (material and somatic) conversations and explore complex topics, viscerally. My artistic (research) practice consists of deep listening/observation, field recording, reading (aloud), (auto)ethnographic writing and thinking through drawing, collage-making, and critical exchange. My focus is on how accessing embodied, tacit, intuitive, and imaginal knowledge of place through stories of and encounters with (geological) landscapes can deepen our understanding of the complexities of (not) belonging in a time of ecological and social crises. Process-orientated and participative live performance, as both research and artistic creation are inseparable in my work.

Portfolio and documentation material

Portfolio highlights:

Portfolio Full:

New project in the making: My mother was a landmine: holding space for complexities of (not) belonging to place

Conversations with seaweed and my mother, North Shore, Ayr, Scotland, September 2024

Audio-visual work and documentation

The unreliable Archives:

video Teaser, Poppy Verstraete, November 2022, Arts Centre VierNulVier, Gent, Belgium

Video from artistic research presentation: What Moss knows:

Video: Rona Kennedy, for presentation at Centre for performative arts/Toneelacademie, Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht, 2020

Sound from artistic research presentation: What Moss knows:

Sound: Rona Kennedy: For presentation at Centre for performative arts/Toneelacademie, Zuyd Hogeschool, Maastricht, 2020

Sound stories from Audio installation Migrating Dialogues:

https://migratingdialogues.org/#panel2

MD#1: Inheriting the Empire, 2017
Performance: Rona Kennedy
Concept and text: Rona Kennedy, based on interviews with William Kennedy (#1)
Concept, sound design, editing: Fabián Espinosa-Díaz
Concept and dramaturgy: Helena Elshout

MD#2: Spaghetti Junction, 2018,
Performance: Rona Kennedy
Concept and text: Rona Kennedy, based on interviews with Ademilola Oduwole (#2)
Concept, sound design, editing: Fabián Espinosa-Díaz
Concept and dramaturgy: Helena Elshout

MD#3: Ladies Choice, 2019.
Performance: Rona Kennedy
Concept and text: Rona Kennedy, based on interviews with Audrey Kennedy (#3)
Concept, sound design, editing: Fabián Espinosa-Díaz
Concept and dramaturgy: Helena Elshout

Video documentation conference presentation: Practices of (in)visibility,

Critical Arts Conference, University of Brighton, June 2015:

In Maart 2015, together with a group of women who live or have lived as undocumented migrant mothers or children, and the Community Arts organisation Victoria Deluxe, I recently created a devised performance about the visible and invisible aspects of their lives. This is a short film of a post production workshop and interview. Two performers use contact improvisation to explore the topics brought up in the performance through the framework of In/visibility. This film was made for a presentation at a conference at the University of Brighton, Dept. of Critical studies: ‘the practice of (in)visibility’ in June 2015.

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