Statement

I make songs, objects, paintings, choreographies and stories; which speak on one another. I build fictional play spaces to research the nature of feeling.

I am concerned with embodied, intuitive language and vulnerable communication.

I make art in search of a space where fiction and reality are blurred, utility and ornament are equally important, and where people can linger on transcendent moments of transition and slippage.

Bio

Kyla Kegler is a choreographer, visual artist and curator who’s paintings, objects and videos explore longing, relationship, pleasure and purpose. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls.

Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of the underground theater, “Zuhause” (Berlin). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me, a multi-modal project exploring the mindfulness industry exhibited at Box gallery, Canisius College and Big Orbit; The House on Fire Show, a teen web-drama about the climate crisis screened at Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art; Mountains: a puppet soap opera performed at Artpark, Torn Space Theater, and Undercurrent Gallery (Brooklyn) and The Frontier, a performance about cults and community (2023); R.d.f.t.c. (Relationships don’t finish, they change): an installation including video and sculpture exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 2024.

I Got My Cult

When I don’t know where to go

When I can’t see what’s truly special about me

When I don’t feel like anything is real

I got my cult

I fantasize about heaven it sounds so fun and full of ice cream bars

My addictive personality makes me crave new more but if I’m close with you’re all I want

I wanted a girl best friend so we could hang out and gossip together

I needed to be wearing just the right purple jacket

Relationships don’t finish, they change

I got my cult

I wanna get to that place where I don’t have the strength 

To hide anything

I got my cult