Matthew Ritchie / Performance

Matthew Ritchie’s monumental wall drawings, expansive sculptural installations and exquisite digital animations tell a complex imaginary history of the universe. At The Kitchen, Ritchie will present a performance-based lecture about his work, in which actors will be silently cued to read texts written by the artist while he delivers a lecture. In a rare and experimental performance, which he calls “half wizard of oz, half Rod Steiger”, he will simultaneously process both live sound feed and live video projected onto multiple screens.

Ritchie was born in 1964 in London, England. He attended Boston University in 1982 and received his BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London, in 1986. His recent solo exhibition Matthew Ritchie: Proposition: Player organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, recently completed a tour at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA. Ritchie was also featured in the 1997 Whitney Biennial. He lives and works in New York City.

Now in its seventh season, The Kitchen’s Sidney Kahn Summer Institute 2005, an intensive three-week laboratory for college-aged and graduate students, reflects the vision of its first invited Artistic Director, Ong Keng Sen, who addresses how traditional performance strategies can blend with cutting edge new media to create artistic forms reflecting today’s dynamic global culture. The focus is the powerful relationships between ancient technologies, dramaturgy, and game. The 2005 Institute will also feature a public performance by Mariko Mori on Friday, July 29th at 7pm.

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Matthew Ritchie / Performance
July 21.07.05, 19:00 performance-based lecture