Tai Kelly is an installation artist whose practice extends across drawing and sound. She investigates interspecies communication through material experimentation, using mediums that are non-traditional and at times living. Informed by her background in electronic music production and circuit building, she constructs responsive systems that reimagine how sound operates as a mode of exchange between species. Her work aims to entangle human and non-human worlds, revealing speculative languages that emerge through ritual to form kinship with unfamiliar forms of intelligence. Kelly’s installations function as active ecosystems, shifting through cycles of breathing, decay, rust, and regeneration. By allowing her works to transform in situ, she challenges conventional modes of presentation through temporal processes. Through these evolving systems of communication, Kelly imagines possibilities for future modes of coexistence that may gently expand how we understand our place within broader ecological systems.
Artworks
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Umwelt: Talk to the flowers (2025)
Talking Through Chaos (2025)
Memories on tape, rusting away in salt-lakes (2025)
Series: Objects Of Fetish (2025- Ongoing)