Mac(Kayla) Kelsey



  • Media Arts Teacher
  • Embodiment Researcher
  • Artist In-between



About/CV (Forthcoming)






(Site in process)
     Teaching (Forthcoming)

    01. Post-Secondary:

         TEAC 330: Education and Culture 

         EMAR 160: Computation and Media 

    02. Community:

          Alternate Plains
Researching

01. Kelsey, M. (Under Review). “In touch, out of sight: Intimate pedagogies and vulnerable literacies as counter-surveillant practice in media education” (Under Review). Vulnerabilties, Leonardo Journal.

02. Kelsey, M. (Under Review). “Water as educational media: A hydropedagogy and fluid methodology”. Journal of Embodied Research.

03. Catalano, T., Malgoubri, I., Bockerman, J., Palala-Martinez, H., Kelsey, M., Brandolini, L., & Scherbokav, I. (2024). “Collaborative aesthetic experiences and teacher learners: Arts-practice research in a teacher education classroom.” International Journal of Education and the Arts.
           Art
  
         01. Linger, Longer (2025)
 
         02. Notes on Healing (2024)

         03. Making Sense (2024)

         04. SoftWear (2024)

         05. The Sensing Wall (2023)

        06. BodyCode (2022)





Alternate Plains (Community Education) 2024 - Present

Alternate Plains is a series of community-based experiences focused on creative practices of sensing and moving, set within the ecologies of the Great Plains. This project is rooted in the spirit of performance art (engaging our bodies as the primary art medium) and ecosomatics (exploring the  sensory relationships between our bodies and nature).

Each experience in this series highlights a different time and space within the prairie (an open field at sunset, under a tree canopy in mid-autumn), guided by a theme concerning natural patterns (e.g., fluidity, spirals, shadows).

Across different times and spaces, individuals encounter creative practices for deepening our sensory awareness, attuning to rhythms of ourselves, each other, and the land, and acknowledging the interdependence between human and more-than-human existences with and within local ecologies. 

(Monthly Sessions supported in partnership with Prairie Pines, Lincoln NE)