Glenn S. Ritchey III

Contents

2025-2026.

Media Coverage

Ad Nauseum

AWG INC

Florida is Loud Fest

Flying Limbs

Temperament

Witchbender

Place-Based Projects

Baking

(Performance; 2023 – Ongoing)

Inspired by the work of Bill Drummond, this project explored critical making, community orature, and ephemeral cultural practices through baking scones and making jam upon request. Over the course of 2023, individuals could request scones and jam with a month’s notice, at no cost. Centered around sharing food, the gatherings emphasized oral storytelling and embodied cultural transmission, recalling traditions of orature where cultural memory and social bonds are formed through direct, personal interaction.

By positioning baking as performance and food preparation as composition, the project bridged theories of composition studies, Old Irish oral traditions, and decolonial practice, critiquing digital dependency and commodification. Like Drummond’s work, it prioritized process over product, fostering communal presence and relationality over mediated interaction.

Managed all aspects of production, from sourcing ingredients to coordinating requests and facilitating gatherings, with scones and jam distributed exclusively during in-person events.

Marie, Mon Amour

Self-released, limited VHS run, 2018.

An short film combining iPhone footage with distorted ‘B-movie’ clips, inspired by 1980s direct-to-video thrillers and filmmakers such as Dietmar Brehm, Cecilia Condit, Marguerite Duras, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. The film follows a memory living in an off-season beach town searching for a lost lover, with intercut cemetery footage implying an unsolved murder.

Screenings

Residencies

CASTLE FREAK: A Remote Residency for Generative Digital Composition

Inside the Castle, November 2025 (publication: November 2026)

Selected for Inside the Castle’s inaugural CASTLE FREAK remote residency program, a competitive annual residency focused on innovative, generative literature and computational composition methods. The residency involves creating a 100,000-word generative work over five days using systematic or algorithmic processes, challenging traditional notions of authorship and exploring the intersection of human intuition and machine logic. The resulting book, Francosim, will be published by Inside the Castle as part of their ongoing exploration of experimental, process-driven literature that “can only be books.”

Read More about the Castle Freak Residency [here].

Publications

Edited & Designed

Ritchey III, Glenn S., ed. Oil Spill. By John Hoffman. Sifting Press, October 2024.

Edited, designed, and coordinated the publication process for this short story collection, contributing both editorial oversight, layout design, and the manufacturing process.

Coverage for Oil Spill

Independent Publications, as Self

Lebor II Self-published as Lebor Publications, limited pamphlet run, July 2023.

Limited-edition pamphlet featuring fragmented experimental writing and abstract storytelling, described as “the first part of a two-part exorcism, presented in reverse order.” It blends chaotic temporal loops, decaying structures, and surreal postmodern landscapes with gothic minimalism and blending of Central Scots. Written, edited, and designed by Glenn S. Ritchey III. Managed all aspects of production, from content to exclusive distribution at Topos Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY.

Lebor I Self-published as Lebor Publications, limited pamphlet run, June 2023.

Limited-edition pamphlet featuring experimental writing and object design, published to incite new ideas and retire old ones. Described as “an unmixed, unmastered, non-existing dance mix single with a bloated preamble,” it blends conceptual critique with farcical reflection. Written, edited, and designed by Glenn S. Ritchey III, with implementation of the custom typeface Amalgam by Benjamin Tuttle. Managed all aspects of production, from content to exclusive distribution at Topos Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY.

Publications, as AWG INC

“Vacances de Printemps sans Mon Amour.” SR50 Magazine, December 2019.

A farcical meditation on writing that blends genre disruption with surreal imagery. Drawing on Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s narrative techniques, the story reimagines the Beach Party series as an abstract, de-facto slasher, subverting genre conventions and audience expectations in arts and culture media.

“M. Accelerated: A Deconstruction of the ‘Spaghetti Western’ and Failed Cinema.”

Pallor Pink Vol. 6: This Ain’t My First Rodeo, November 2019. [link]

A genre deconstruction reimagining the spaghetti western through the fragmented narrative style of Marguerite Duras and the iconic imagery of Sergio Leone. The work juxtaposes surreal visuals with reflective text, exploring the tension between genre conventions and personal, process-driven creation.