untitled VHS

ongoing research, 2025-current

untitled VHS is an unscripted encounter with the past. Kayla selects an untitled VHS from her family’s archive without knowing what it contains, meeting it with an improvised performance.  A confrontation between then and now, real-time and recorded image, untitled VHS is a soft conduit between past, present, and future, where family history is renegotiated while being placed on display for circulation, resonance, and potential repair. 

Ever-shifting, untitled VHS asks: Can the future alter the past? Can witnessing be a form of care? Can sharing family archive, unedited, unresolved, open space for collective healing as much as personal reckoning?

Seeking presenting partners.

PRESENTATIONS
August 2025: Minnesota Ballet Performing Artist Series, Duluth, MN 

PRESS
Best Bets, Duluth News Tribune, 2025
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. Kayla is a recipient of the Individual Artist Equity Grant, made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture heritage fund.
additional Photography by cc Boyle Photography, Adrian Steinbach, bill cameron, ASHLEY DEREN