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 a multidisciplinary artist playing at the intersections of dance, sound, video, and new media. She is of settler descent working and living between the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations/Vancouver and Tio’tia:ke/Montréal. She co-founded the dance-film collective Projet Contrabête (2015-2018) alongside Lara Oundjian, where she produced five dance films that have been shown in nine Canadian film festivals. Her choreography BALLS premiered at Festival Quartiers Danses (Montreal, QC) and was shown at Festivals Vue Sur la Relève (Montreal, QC) where it won the “coup de coeur'' prize.

Since 2019, Kait has developed a sound practice using voice, field recording, and sampling which she has interwoven with her movement practice and choreographies. Her sound and movement performances have been shown most recently at What Lab (Vancouver, BC), Duplex Gallery (Vancouver, BC), Center of International Contemporary Art (Vancouver, BC), and Active/Passive (Galiano, BC). She released her first single redmoon in 2023 under her solo project goddaughter. 

Kait’s first foray into new media art began with her curiosity about embodiment in the digital sphere. Her live online performance breathworks explores the ecology of the desktop, wellness apps, and finding a space to breathe in “nature” online. And her live performance doublevision, a collaboration with erψn temp3st under the moniker tender.gif, explores duetting and neo-feudalism using online avatars, Augmented Reality, 3D modeling, and modular costuming. Kait has a YouTube channel @communikait__ to satisfy her need to be seen. You should subscribe.

Ramsden is a dance teacher. She runs a body positive class that is open to all bodies and ages.