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)





SoftWear (2024)






SoftWear (2024) is an ongoing exploration concerning textile practice, social codes, and touch as a medium and modality for knowing and being in the world. Composed of two white, soft sculptures - a 3 ft x 3ft cube and a 27 ft tube - SoftWear was presented as a day-long performance in ordinary times and places: atop a fishing dock specked with silver scales and oxidized blood, on a tennis court next to a heated match, in a parking garage with only echos for company.

Embedded across, within, and between the performance, were encounters with and engagements of contraction and expansion and the subtle oscillations between either that shift depending on context. The cube was in one moment, a protective container and the next a heavy entrapment; the tube was in one moment a line of openness, and the next, an empty entanglement. 

Throughout these states, depending upon what touches and is touched, the sculptures, as bodies, become changed, imprinted upon through various immediacies and proximities, and ultimately, their own subjective vulnerabilities. Such imprints then influence how bodies - my own and others - make sense of and move through the world. 

(Solo Exhibition @ Medici Gallery, Lincoln NE)