Ripples was a collaborative research residency between artist Kitt Peacock and the Dirty Dishes Collective, taking place within the Crummy Gallery in front of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria from 
July 4-11, 2022 as a part of UNIT/PITT's Wrong Wave Festival.

With the intention of creating a collaborative zine, Ripples explores movement and trace as a way of queering and decolonizing settler relationships to land. Looking to the sea edge’s resistance of colonial mapping and the tidal zone as a space that’s constantly erasing, rewriting, and leaving traces through erosion, Ripples considers the queer possibilities of shapeshifting geographies which refuse finitude.

Functioning as an open studio/community workshop zone, the gallery had a queer zine library set-up so folks could read and visit with the residency artists + curators. Throughout the residency, we also hosted zine-making workshops and talks exploring the themes we are working with.

Kitt Peacock is an artist-researcher from O’odham Jeweḍ, currently working on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ nations. Their practice is centred around the creation and maintenance of trans worlds, and considers how violent conditions can be redeployed as the very material of trans life. Their current work alongside the Centre for Near Life Research forges alliances with non-living relations—contaminated waterways, lethal algae blooms, and sites of harm—in order to discover new strategies of community resistance.

They hold an MFA from the University of British Columbia (2023) and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019). Their work has appeared in exhibitions at MoMA PS1 (New York), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.

In support from UNIT/PITT Wronger Wave Festival.

In-kind support from the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Crummy Gallery, and SUPPLY Victoria.