Bio

Kelsey Braun is currently focusing his practice in the aural and visual parts of our world that remain on the periphery, the sights and sounds in the corner of our ears and eyes, using them to construct another kind of reality from within which we can either escape, or observe our own. Kelsey explores these environments using a uniquely contrasting and complimentary combination of audio and video to highlight, connect, and re-contextualize these phenomenon. These ideas are translated into sound performance and recording, video, and multi-media installations.

Works

In Frequency

  • 2009
  • Kelsey Braun

Electro-magnetic frequency recordings rhythmically infuse a raw image of algae with a new kind of life and tempo, like a visual translation of these radio waves.

In Frequency

Studies in Seasonal Decay

  • 2014
  • Kelsey Braun

Documents of a changing landscape in rapid succession establish a new visual scape of change.

Studies in Seasonal Decay

Mr. Coffee

  • 2013
  • Kelsey Braun

A meditation through coffee pot destruction on the irony of irrational intuition in a controlled setting.

Mr. Coffee

Untitled (1981 Under Ice)

  • 2013
  • Kelsey Braun

Recorded memory reverberates between moments of real and those of fiction.

Untitled (1981 Under Ice)

Exploration of Surface Decay

  • 2012
  • Kelsey Braun

Exploration of Surface and Decay is a meditation on the transformative properties time produces on our surroundings. Found rust, scratches, and other marks, unknown materials dried on to, and dis-coloured surfaces such as paint, wood, and metal, are extensively filmed and woven together to create an entirely new landscape.

Exploration of Surface Decay

Fire and Man

  • 2009
  • Kelsey Braun

Darkness envelops a man and a fire, isolating them together. Will these flames, once pivotal to the proliferation of humankind, now loom central to our demise?

Fire and Man

Last Breaths on the Great Expanse

  • 2009
  • Kelsey Braun

The video uses heat to distort an image of a prairie landscape encroached upon by an expanding urban centre. The orchestra of field recordings and combination with the abstracted landscapes of this work reflects the uncertainty and change of a land caught between use and abuse.

Last breaths on the Great Expanse

That Wrong Feeling

  • 2009
  • Kelsey Braun

Visual and aural conflict constitute a landscape of anxiety. The uneasy frozen ground as projection of a phenomenology of distress. An experimental live-action depiction of the conflicted and uncertain psychology of the artist in a derelict, hostile landscape illuminated by a lonely bonfire.

That Wrong Feeling