Activist, artist, community steward, medicine womxn and a member of the neurodivergent community.
Kayleigh is a multidisciplinary performance artist, ethnographic researcher, oral historian and acupuncture clinician. Over the past ten years she has orchestrated spaces for people to share recorded audios of poignant histories and stories oriented around critical social and political narratives to be presented in an Oral History Performance Initiative: The Community Storytelling Composition Project https://www.thecommunitystorytellingcompositionproject.com.
Most of her work focuses on socio-political discourse, drawing upon performance as a subversive tool to generate conversation around a particular poignant or charged subject. With these performances, she endlessly questions how to utilize aberrant, site-specific spaces for the narratives to be heard outside of conventional proscenium environments. She has explored utilizing the stage for ethnographic storytelling to discuss societal issues, instigating felt experience around concepts including; Disconnection, Involuntary Waste, Local Food Systems, Hydraulic Fracking, Gender politics and Systemic injustices.
Kayleigh’s intellectual interests investigate concepts of performativity, the construction of boundaries invoked in spectatorship, the utilization of various mediums of art as instruments of dissent, and the usage of performance and texts in the development of societal dialogue, belonging, political constructs, cultural bias, consensus culture and oral histories. She has degrees in Sociology from Hunter College, NY, Anthropology from SUNY New Paltz, NY, a Masters in Traditional Chinese Medicine at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and a NYS, NCCAOM Licensed Acupuncturist. Kayleigh is a part of the incoming Masters of Oral History cohort at Columbia University.
