Kiley Brandt

August 2025

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, legal forms, soundscapes, and poetry. In my practice I try to maintain honesty and emotion while also seeking to disrupt comfort. 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. My work is often poetic in nature and enmeshed in not just emotional reaction but physical sensation. I am working with programs such as 3D modeling software, projection mapping programs and utilizing VR space, web space and 360 cameras to piece apart the digital landscape. I make videos that often are about memory and more recently the difference between immaterial conceptual “home” and the physical ritual making of home.

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 and Mexican/ American Border politics. She was a 2019 New Media Caucus: Border Control Presenter in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art- Digital Media at Clemson University, SC. https://kileybrandt.com @kiley.brandt on Instagram

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