https://kathleenritter.com Kathleen Ritter Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:20:10 +0000 https://kathleenritter.com en https://kathleenritter.com/Gaslight Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:53:46 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Gaslight Gaslight <img width="1412" height="1049" width_o="1412" height_o="1049" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23577ed4fe4938bf60637a2387bbc642047d9bd889f93d983ac8a819510dab36/Gaslight_2-CROP.jpg" data-mid="125159979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23577ed4fe4938bf60637a2387bbc642047d9bd889f93d983ac8a819510dab36/Gaslight_2-CROP.jpg" /> Gaslight, 2020neon, metal, paint, 315 x 381 cmpublic artwork, Vancouver, Canada Gaslight is a neon sign designed after the title card for the 1940 film by the same name. The sign is a pun on the nature of neon as light made from gas, as well as the psychological term for manipulating one’s reality—gaslighting—a metaphor for political and media relations in this so called post-truth era. Situated in public space with the outline of the gas flame “flickering”, the sign functions as both a beacon and a warning. <img width="1194" height="1920" width_o="1194" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4545cd7487870cd8ca5d97deb75f17dd5667667fbf9104199436405114187412/Gaslight_8.jpg" data-mid="125159973" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4545cd7487870cd8ca5d97deb75f17dd5667667fbf9104199436405114187412/Gaslight_8.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1659" width_o="1920" height_o="1659" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/890a7af5b39cf9bd3c8a4dcbefae808b6db4d29f57823cb12860c3c999db4af4/Gaslight_7.jpg" data-mid="125159980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/890a7af5b39cf9bd3c8a4dcbefae808b6db4d29f57823cb12860c3c999db4af4/Gaslight_7.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1420" width_o="1920" height_o="1420" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/73aa40586008e499fa5f9b02f02949ca79a2b5251d7eb9129fa4e714c3718d9b/Gaslight_3.jpg" data-mid="125159977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/73aa40586008e499fa5f9b02f02949ca79a2b5251d7eb9129fa4e714c3718d9b/Gaslight_3.jpg" /> <img width="1216" height="1920" width_o="1216" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/99ae2af0a60e01e556efadb4e2b2c94834c02cd72f224c9c34df0f96f4b4db3e/Gaslight_9.jpg" data-mid="125159974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/99ae2af0a60e01e556efadb4e2b2c94834c02cd72f224c9c34df0f96f4b4db3e/Gaslight_9.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1440" width_o="1920" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9ef7dde47f547e4f1b95eaa17cf01d65e680dff662fb33406992033652e4223/Gaslight_11.jpg" data-mid="125159975" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9ef7dde47f547e4f1b95eaa17cf01d65e680dff662fb33406992033652e4223/Gaslight_11.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1439" width_o="1920" height_o="1439" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d7c36f5cabb2b21dd4fefb7da65b1e5afc57b56887bd3fa8adb2a82e2948d0d/Gaslight_4.jpg" data-mid="125159978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d7c36f5cabb2b21dd4fefb7da65b1e5afc57b56887bd3fa8adb2a82e2948d0d/Gaslight_4.jpg" /> <img width="1920" height="1646" width_o="1920" height_o="1646" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcb4e352824dc4ec77c80ca21b847a1ec05dbc4c5d7394a81981d17074b5db20/Gaslight_5.jpg" data-mid="125159976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcb4e352824dc4ec77c80ca21b847a1ec05dbc4c5d7394a81981d17074b5db20/Gaslight_5.jpg" /> https://kathleenritter.com/A-Pair-of-Boots Sun, 21 Nov 2021 08:40:38 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/A-Pair-of-Boots A Pair of Boots <img width="750" height="1000" width_o="750" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00f5261974574a535492960da0de66ea7a1d82d761a1a06e9f51e7bca90a51eb/boots.jpg" data-mid="125200199" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/00f5261974574a535492960da0de66ea7a1d82d761a1a06e9f51e7bca90a51eb/boots.jpg" /> A Pair of Boots, 2018watercolour on paper, 144 x 106 cm A Pair of Boots is a watercolour based on the boots found in the famous photograph of Lee Miller bathing in Hitler’s bathtub on April 30, 1945. Miller, the only female combat photographer in Europe during World War II, had photographed the Dachau concentration camp earlier that day. She then travelled to Munich, by this time under U.S. occupation, and photographed Hitler’s apartment extensively. This watercolour isolates a key element from Miller’s photograph: her boots, which stain Hitler’s bath mat with dirt from Dachau. The composition also references Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, A Pair of Shoes, 1886, which was the centerpiece of Martin Heidegger’s essay The Origin of the Work of Art, and the subject of much debate in the discourse of 20th century aesthetics. https://kathleenritter.com/Mina-Loy Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:15:23 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Mina-Loy Mina Loy <img width="1800" height="2469" width_o="1800" height_o="2469" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e22251c058454536efb8e90e5e78ba0d1ed285588129cc3df7651f0f1d7ce554/2014-12-04-BattatRitter-018.jpg" data-mid="126718097" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e22251c058454536efb8e90e5e78ba0d1ed285588129cc3df7651f0f1d7ce554/2014-12-04-BattatRitter-018.jpg" /> Mina Loy, 2014 serigraph on Magnani Pescia paper, 76 x 56 cm Mina Loy is a portrait reproduced from a 1905 photograph of Loy with her eyes closed. It is printed as a serigraph in gunmetal ink on grey paper. https://kathleenritter.com/Dazzle Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:17:53 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Dazzle Dazzle <img width="1000" height="769" width_o="1000" height_o="769" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc359a058e8ff42c764866a39c1719ded0dfb9c0f13e69335cd0ae05ffa482eb/dazzlesuite.jpg" data-mid="126718170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc359a058e8ff42c764866a39c1719ded0dfb9c0f13e69335cd0ae05ffa482eb/dazzlesuite.jpg" /> Dazzle, 2016 series of 3 serigraphs on Moulin de Couzi paper, each 76 x 56 cm Dazzle is from a series of works that explore diverse forms of camouflage, subterfuge and encoded communication. This project examines the historical parallels and interconnected histories between war, women’s suffrage, fashion, and avant-garde moments in art, music and cinema in the early half of the twentieth century. <img width="1630" height="2102" width_o="1630" height_o="2102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21840147015c7dab725328ce0a2802517f926c953786ed0b79aede86f40a4115/dazzle02.jpg" data-mid="126718169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21840147015c7dab725328ce0a2802517f926c953786ed0b79aede86f40a4115/dazzle02.jpg" /> https://kathleenritter.com/Disrupt Tue, 07 Dec 2021 12:20:10 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Disrupt Disrupt <img width="1280" height="855" width_o="1280" height_o="855" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/109d87dbb1acfd67acfb52872623c367e47e347465aa62c1e956e546718a9ff3/SummonGhosts-61.jpg" data-mid="126718332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/109d87dbb1acfd67acfb52872623c367e47e347465aa62c1e956e546718a9ff3/SummonGhosts-61.jpg" /> Disrupt, 2018, polyester and nylon elastane fabric, wood, metal, dimensions variable, and;&nbsp;Dazzle, 2016, series of 3 serigraphs on Moulin de Couzi paper, each 76 x 56 cm, photo: Scott Massey Dazzle and Disrupt are part of an ongoing body of work investigating “dazzle” camouflage, a technique developed in the first decade of the twentieth century and used briefly on Allied naval battleships during World War I. The intent of dazzle or disruptive camouflage was not to conceal but to confuse: its graphic patterns of intersecting geometric shapes made it difficult for the enemy to estimate a target’s range, speed, and heading. In this series of works, the use of dazzle camouflage is mapped alongside contemporaneous cultural anxieties in Europe and North America about women’s increasing social, economic, intellectual and sexual freedom, and the furtive undermining of patriarchal systems and domesticity such new mobility implied. The three serigraphic prints are taken from several degraded photographs published in New York newspapers in 1919 that depict three women modeling self-made dazzle swimwear on a beach. The corresponding garments are recreations of these swimsuits, made in collaboration with a pattern drafter, and draped over an asymmetrical dressing screen, an invitation for visitors to model them. <img width="1280" height="899" width_o="1280" height_o="899" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3ef58538516a24ccf8f8785958c240ea5287afae708c2d77f06dc261fd8baeb/SummonGhosts-60B.jpg" data-mid="126718331" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3ef58538516a24ccf8f8785958c240ea5287afae708c2d77f06dc261fd8baeb/SummonGhosts-60B.jpg" /> https://kathleenritter.com/Call-to-Order Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:56:50 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Call-to-Order Call to Order <img width="1040" height="585" width_o="1040" height_o="585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb551eaf5f8ec575cb77b46ea337ea0a0ebc39f487954aea2f7aff96ef6c19a4/CTO-rehearsal-02.jpg" data-mid="126717242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb551eaf5f8ec575cb77b46ea337ea0a0ebc39f487954aea2f7aff96ef6c19a4/CTO-rehearsal-02.jpg" /> Kathleen Ritter, Call to Order, 2012, with James B. Maxwell graphical scores, performance, audio recording from improvised performance performed by Peggy Lee (violoncelle), Jon Bentley (clarinet), et Chris Gestrin (piano) Call to Order transforms a prosaic form of administration into material for creative production. Musical scores are created from the meeting minutes of each organization by mapping Robert’s Rules of Order onto the implied rules of Piston’s Harmony and using both texts as comparative guides. The graphical scores are then given to musicians to interpret and perform. Call to Ordercharts an organization’s tendency to work against established models in order to produce something unique, unpredictable, and in constant movement, much like the minor mode in music. <img width="3257" height="2398" width_o="3257" height_o="2398" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe13eb631eba789e6abf308b62cb1122715cf0caae4334057c04b45023933a2d/CTOframe.jpg" data-mid="126717243" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe13eb631eba789e6abf308b62cb1122715cf0caae4334057c04b45023933a2d/CTOframe.jpg" /><img width="730" height="1024" width_o="730" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/269f4ffb70c5f8df4cffbfc20a85be0a2a22265acc179f93b1668638bd62b85a/05KR2012CalltoOrder.jpg" data-mid="126717244" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/730/i/269f4ffb70c5f8df4cffbfc20a85be0a2a22265acc179f93b1668638bd62b85a/05KR2012CalltoOrder.jpg" /> https://kathleenritter.com/Revolt Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:53:56 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Revolt Revolt <img width="1800" height="1176" width_o="1800" height_o="1176" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/12ebaf5e67cb09163e8b026c8c6d94bdc6fc8b99fed2beb5fb900cb59e054ab8/2014-12-04-BattatRitter-009.jpg" data-mid="126716974" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/12ebaf5e67cb09163e8b026c8c6d94bdc6fc8b99fed2beb5fb900cb59e054ab8/2014-12-04-BattatRitter-009.jpg" /> Revolt, 2014 serigraph on Arches 88 paper, series of 6, each 76.5 x 57.5 cm Revolt is a series of serigraphic prints with revolutionary messages written entirely in shorthand. Shorthand, or stenography, is the general term for abbreviated writing using a sequence of marks and symbols that can transcribe speech at the same speed at which it is spoken. In the mid-20th century, the heyday of shorthand coincided with the rise of feminism and significant changes in the status of women in society. Given the historical connection between the women’s movement and women’s ubiquitous knowledge of shorthand, it is surprising that shorthand was not the written language of this revolution, considering that it was a language shared almost exclusively by women. The texts for the prints were collaged from a variety of sources linked to revolutionary moments, including political speeches and avant-garde films, feminist writings and artists’ manifestos, song lyrics and protest slogans. Translated into shorthand and printed as a series of large format black and red screenprints on poster paper, Revoltproposes a revolution in cipher. <img width="3840" height="5760" width_o="3840" height_o="5760" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0727d80a6eaa39c3040fc750505f7b7d569515bcf57d0b3cf0cdc4d21442383/02KRframe.jpg" data-mid="126716972" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0727d80a6eaa39c3040fc750505f7b7d569515bcf57d0b3cf0cdc4d21442383/02KRframe.jpg" /> https://kathleenritter.com/Hidden-Camera Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:52:34 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Hidden-Camera Hidden Camera <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4207f004ccf099761b5fd38ce862d05308b6bb38a87ff345c6e79880a5e36fc0/01KR2006Camera.jpg" data-mid="126716809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4207f004ccf099761b5fd38ce862d05308b6bb38a87ff345c6e79880a5e36fc0/01KR2006Camera.jpg" /> Kathleen Ritter, Hidden Camera, 2008 pigment inkjet print, 91.5 x 122 cm Hidden Camera is a photograph of a camera that is “hidden” inside a woman’s purse. https://kathleenritter.com/Boom Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:50:23 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Boom Boom&nbsp; <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5e3bb118073026da09fc88501ac14dfa25dc7e554209d415fb07469f86ecae9/03KR2008Boom.jpg" data-mid="126716710" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5e3bb118073026da09fc88501ac14dfa25dc7e554209d415fb07469f86ecae9/03KR2008Boom.jpg" /> Boom, 2008 video installation with sound, looped, dimensions variable Boom is a series of video tableaus that use fireworks to reveal a landscape otherwise concealed in the dead of night. Inspired by early experiments in flash photography, Boom is an irreverent send-up of the history of photography and its obsession with capturing the pastoral. https://kathleenritter.com/Reprise Mon, 06 Dec 2021 15:11:21 +0000 Kathleen Ritter https://kathleenritter.com/Reprise Reprise <img width="3937" height="2625" width_o="3937" height_o="2625" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3cf19e6d7f1cf1bf490a59e4d88557fabce80fa85130629f0329e46aa1a4c31/Ritter-Reprise-2017.jpg" data-mid="126623810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3cf19e6d7f1cf1bf490a59e4d88557fabce80fa85130629f0329e46aa1a4c31/Ritter-Reprise-2017.jpg" /> Dave Ritter and Kathleen Ritter, Reprise, 2017 sound installation, turntalbe, vinyl record, wall mural, cushions view of the exhibition In search of Expo 67 presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal in 2017 Photo: Guy L’Heureux Reprise is a sound installation by siblings Dave Ritter (academic and musician) and Kathleen Ritter (artist and writer) based on the origins of electronic music. A year-long collaborative research process resulted in the creation of a full-length album, printed on vinyl, that samples heavily from music, texts, speeches, instruments and techniques of the era, and housed in a brightly coloured, interactive listening lounge, to create a reprise of electronic music circa 1967. By the late 1960s, the massive upheavals in social and political relations were mirrored in the divergent forms of music that emerged. In the realm of electronic music in particular, new approaches to composition, both structured and conceptual, as well as aleatoric and drug-inspired, were fuelled by a growing fascination with the use of technology to produce sound. Some notable examples include Delia Derbyshire’s conceptual approaches to electronic sound, Steve Reich’s use of recorded speech, phasing patterns, and repetition, Daphne Oram’s instrumentalization of film and tape loops, and Glenn Gould’s use of overlapping voices. By 1967 there are numerous instances where new techniques like sampling and new instruments like the synthesizer were introduced to popular audiences, innovations that presaged the rise of the remix, techno, hip hop, and DJ culture. <img width="3543" height="2364" width_o="3543" height_o="2364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7abb91729899a725497fe26911d9fd0c72896173ee46ec8a6f15e72c1032161f/Ritter-Reprise-2017-2.jpg" data-mid="126623809" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7abb91729899a725497fe26911d9fd0c72896173ee46ec8a6f15e72c1032161f/Ritter-Reprise-2017-2.jpg" /> <img width="3677" height="3683" width_o="3677" height_o="3683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ce71e5f8cab288b815c6c6185e0cf7426f4b9848893c29166891a8f3cab1561/REPRISE-Cover-FRONT-FINAL-01.jpg" data-mid="126623514" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ce71e5f8cab288b815c6c6185e0cf7426f4b9848893c29166891a8f3cab1561/REPRISE-Cover-FRONT-FINAL-01.jpg" /> <img width="3645" height="3676" width_o="3645" height_o="3676" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10b323dea03a514b818c840f640ba781cb1406ace770784a90c1022426725913/REPRISE-Cover-BACK-FINAL-01.jpg" data-mid="126623515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10b323dea03a514b818c840f640ba781cb1406ace770784a90c1022426725913/REPRISE-Cover-BACK-FINAL-01.jpg" /> <img width="3479" height="3450" width_o="3479" height_o="3450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/504a84b1e7f08e8db4052f79e89aba8844c9d8ccd8ceebdddf3c9562fbfd9f8b/REPRISE-Insert-BACK-01.jpg" data-mid="126623516" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/504a84b1e7f08e8db4052f79e89aba8844c9d8ccd8ceebdddf3c9562fbfd9f8b/REPRISE-Insert-BACK-01.jpg" /> <img width="3450" height="3450" width_o="3450" height_o="3450" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4a0949d2fd29d50ad7592f49f8d0c1b4037f1945750247545b44e56bedc793d/REPRISE-Insert-BACK-02.jpg" data-mid="126623517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4a0949d2fd29d50ad7592f49f8d0c1b4037f1945750247545b44e56bedc793d/REPRISE-Insert-BACK-02.jpg" />