28 May – 5 July 2025
Opening 28 May at 6pm
Rituals
Tūī Diprose
The river is relentless, timeless, ancient. A spirit unto itself. The river comes to us in dreams, meditations, it moves through timelines and dimensions. The river is both earthly and divine.
The river contains secrets, treasures, messages and signs. Read the omens, listen, feel, remember your origins. We are of this earth, and far beyond.
Find your rhythm, be as the river. Snakes slither over rocks, carving out their serpentine path, setting themselves into the land.
Tūī Diprose creates within ritual, allowing intuitive rivers to call through realms beyond this reality. Bridging worlds both physical and metaphysical; the spirit world alive and anchored through material form.
28 May – 5 July 2025
Opening 28 May at 6pm
Heatwave
Raisa Mclean
Summer’s sting is sharp when the sun dips out of our reach. It falls through me like sand in a sieve. In the sticky heat of January, I tried to gather it, holding it lightly with my fingers splayed. Wavering on a tightrope, I spilled the itchy grains over everything. We cried and cried as I tried to sweep them up, gathering pieces until all the trees dried up and turned red. Before it could be caught, summertime drifted off and we never spoke again. My room was so hot that night, it was a feeling I couldn’t quite name.
The ephemerality of summer is inadvertently spoken about year after year. We yearn for its arrival, then question whether it lived up to the last. It’s reflected on, mourned, and then yearned for until the season rolls around again, each iteration replacing the years prior.
I think there’s no better way to depict temporariness than through a body of works set in the summer. Looking to hauntology and other Derridean ideas of deconstruction as a conceptual framework for artmaking, I often feel things start to disappear as soon as they’re made solid – as though giving form to memory also begins its erosion.
Both solid and spectral, this collection of works offers a lament of the contradiction of memory. Heatwave presents figures and scenes of season’s past – some collaged into each other, further obfuscating any chance at clear narrative recollection. They are the product of many years, across many summers, each haunted by the last.
Various Rooms: RM 1997 to 2022 (RM25)
Available now
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On 12 April RM launched Various Rooms: RM 1997 to 2022 (RM25).
RM25 is a non-exhaustive snapshot of RM, a selection of scans and screenshots from the archives presented in broadly chronological order.
It’s a book full of posters, photos, plans, invites, and a few letters and emails from the early rm3 days (and rm212, rm401, and rm103) through to the current form of RM.
RM25 is 226 pages, softcover, A5 size. Only 200 copies printed.
Priced at $40 per copy, with all proceeds going to RM.
Payment will be via bank transfer.
Shipping will be around $6 for orders placed within NZ.
For overseas orders, get in touch with us to confirm shipping costs.
Pick up a copy at RM, or email us at info@rm.org.nz to order a copy.
