statement

I make art about deep connections: to the self, to the other, to time, to space, to the universe. I dream through choreography, performance, sound, and video. I use art to collectively imagine communities who live through beauty and pleasure. I make art to help us remember that we are both inherently alone and in a perpetual state of intimacy with everything around us. My art seeks to blur the lines between healing and power, between seer and seen, between audience and performer. I seek immortality and to remember that we are all going to die. I often wonder why we are alive in the first place. I use prayer, magic, pop, and pleasure to manifest and destroy. I bathe in sincerity even though I flinch at the thought. I make art because I don’t know what else to do.

Kait Ramsden is an interdisciplinary artist and dance educator playing at the intersections of dance, sound, video, and new media. She is of settler descent working and living on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations/Vancouver. 

Recent work include Do You Love Me? an interdisciplinary performance that uses video, datamoshing, sound, and performance to explore fantasy, censorship, romance, and compulsory heterosexuality. Other recent work includes afterbirth a multidisciplinary theatre and dance performance which looks at the manipulative power of ritual and cult, and goddaughter an experimental pop project where Ramsden can let the pop princes thrive. 

Her interdisciplinary work has been presented across Canada over the past nine years at various venues such as Found Festival (Edmonton, AB), Shooting Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Qathet Art Centre (Powell River, BC), UNIT/PITT (Vancouver, BC), Active Passive (Galliano, BC), What Lab (Vancouver, BC), The Scotiabank Dance Centre (Vancouver, BC), Duplex Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Center of International Contemporary Art (Vancouver, BC), Festivals Vue Sur la Relève (Montreal, QC), Festival Quartiers Danses (Montreal, QC), Galerie Articule (Montreal, QC), Festivals Internationals de Films sur l’Art (Montreal, QC), Christie Pits Film Festival (Toronto, ON), and Insomniac Film Festival (Toronto, ON).

As a dance educator Ramsden offers sliding scale contemporary dance classes in Vancouver with the intention to build community through embodiment and play!