photo by Camille Blake
Dylan Kerr (b. 1996, Ireland) is an artist and vocalist working across performance, sound, photography, installation, moving image and composition. Their practice is deeply attuned to place and often begins with the histories and unique resonant qualities of the sites they engage with. In their compositions, they combine process-based methods, microtonality, and extended vocal techniques to explore psychoacoustic phenomena such as beating, interference patterns, and the interplay between the voice and space.
Central to their practice is site-specific, durational work which is made in isolation. This is a meditative endurance practice that deranges the language of the body in order to invoke a place and its spirits. Though made without an audience, these works find a public through fragments that form installations. Dispersals, transfers and distortions across bodies, place, time and digital and analogue recording processes create fissures and gaps through which the work emerges.
Recent works include Caoineadh an Chóibh, a 24-hour durational work at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Ireland (2025), reflecting on Cobh's history as a departure point for those displaced by colonisation, and Solo for Breath (2025), exploring the timbral and spectral qualities of breath through extended techniques.
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