Kiley Brandt

“My art is inherently political due to the nature of my identity. I am a transnational adoptee, and I am exploring in my research the boundaries between home, created space, mythology, ritual, and site. I frequently use digital media to do this, finding a connection between projected light and the intangibility of memory and personal mythologies. Many of the pieces I produce span mediums such as video installations, found text, soundscapes, and poetry. I want my work to compel uncertainty in the space that people occupy, whether that is the gallery space or their own bodies. I am working in topics personal to me, such as interracial adoption, diaspora, and immigration but I am also fascinated by film, advertisement, and spectacle in relation to race theory and technology. My work is often poetic in nature and enmeshed in not just emotional reaction but physical sensation.”

Kiley Brandt (MFA) is a video artist from North Carolina. In her work, Brandt attempts to inspire empathy through sound, poetry and immersive installation to better communicate dissatisfaction with the current political climate and the uncertain displacement many feel within it. Her research areas include diaspora, adoption, immigration, home, memory, archive and technology. Her work has been shown internationally in Japan and Iceland. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville Artist Collective, board chair of the School of Making Thinking and an Assistant Professor of Art at Clemson University, SC.