Not quoting anyone else here, so my name is on next line.

—Mongoose Chen

Cameron Rey
Theo Macdonald
Natasha Priddle
Poal Ex
Mongoose Chen

// Opening Wednesday 8 April, 6pm
// Showing from Thursday 9 April – Saturday 25 April 2015

// Open Discussion Thursday 23 April, 3pm

Featuring:

Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua, Léuli Eshraghi, Kiran Foster, Tanu Gago, Cecilia Kavara Verran, Moe Laga, Emilie Rākete, Molly Rangiwai McHale, David Roil, Sangeeta Singh, Tuafale Tanoa’i (a.k.a. Linda T.), Ron Te Kawa, Luisa Tora, Pati Solomona Tyrell, Anna Vo

// Opening Thursday 12 February, 6pm

// Exhibition runs until Saturday 28 February 2014
3 Samoa House Lane*
Newton, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

* Off Beresford Square

QUEER RESISTANCE explores the multiplicities of our identities encircled in deeply interconnected social and political struggles through honouring our revolutionary roots of LGBTQI liberation movements in Aotearoa and around the world.

The queer liberation movement was born out of resistance against police brutality, harassment, discriminatory laws, and a myriad of other forms of targeted injustices faced predominantly by working class people of colour sexuality and gender minorities.

In celebrating the collective struggle for queer and trans* liberation, QUEER RESISTANCE seeks to intentionally re-energise dialogues in our communities to encompass all representations of genders and sexualities in decolonial, anti-capitalist, intersectional and intergenerational frameworks.

Events

12/2, 6pm – OPENING: Spoken word and sounds from Whaitiri Mikaere, Linda T. and Jahra Rager

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14/2, 4pm – Decolonise the Rainbow

Mainstream, depoliticised queerness and the dominance of gay white cis men’s issues overshadow the broader needs of the “LGBTQI”/ ”rainbow” community. Those of us who sit outside of the mainstream LGBTQI spaces are doing a panel discussion that critically interrogates dynamics of white supremacy, settler colonialism, capitalism, pinkwashing and patriarchy which are reproduced in ‘queer’ spaces.

These speakers will address an aspect of this topic:

Emilie Rākete, Tulia Thompson, Kiran Foster, Nadia, Philip Wills, Joni Gordon (more TBC)

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16/2, 6pm – Art Gallery Guides: Linda T. and Layne Waerea

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20/2, 6pm – Petty and Vindictive, Queer(y)ing Theory 

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25/2, 6pm – Taking the T to the next level – Workshop with Torranice Campel

TAKING THE ‘T’ TO THE NEXT LEVEL is a workshop designed to create a safe space which enables participants to freely share stories, reflect personal experiences and learnings with one another about their transition journey. Through collaboration and conversation, participants gain an awareness that they are not alone, identify support mechanisms and solutions to any presenting issues.

Together we can one ones’ wellbeing and move towards independence in our communities.

SkyRadio

// Opening Wednesday 26 November, 6pm
// Exhibition runs until Saturday 13 December 2014

Rebecca Steedman presents a selection of electrical atmospheric sounds recorded during her recent Arteles residency in Finland, alongside visual representations of these sounds/ experiences using natural mixes of clay, mineral reactions, and glazes and stains.

The presented recordings are mainly from Enontekiö (Lapland), where, Steedman stood on a frozen lake in the middle of the night or around dawn in order to capture electrical waves created by lightning and solar storms. Recorded with an extremely low frequency (ELF) receiver, the crackles or static created by natural phenomenon are interlaced with fluctuating man-made sounds generated from things like distant power lines. SkyRadio builds upon Steedman’s ongoing interest in exploring ways to represent/ground ephemerality.

// Residency dates: Sun 4 January – Wed 4 February 2015
// Deadline for expressions of interest: Thurs 4 December 2014

At RM, first floor, 307 Karangahape Road,
Newton, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

RM is very excited to once again be hosting an international residency programme — providing five artists with some studio space, accommodation and a small stipend for four weeks of summer in Auckland. This is a residency that has been motivated by the informal frameworks and conversations that surround art practices. It is a time for finding ways to open up your research and thinking to others; creating a space where we might think and talk and eat together.

We are currently seeking expression of interest from artists, designers, writers and curators to take part in this residency. Three of the places will be taken by New Zealand practitioners, with the other two places reserved for those based overseas.

A BRIEF OVERVIEW:

As with the previous four years, the gallery space will be converted into a shared studio (to be shared between the five residents).  In addition to providing a space for self-initiated projects, the residency will also include a programme of activities that look to encourage shared experiences and conversations between the studio artist, RM and the wider community in Auckland. We are anticipating that three or four field trips will take place, as well as regular shared meals and a weekly presentation/activity at RM.

There will not be an exhibition occurring as part of the residency — our focus is on providing a space for research and process that is not pressured by outcomes.

The residency program will commence on Sunday 4 January and run through until Wednesday 4 February. Participants will be expected to be present for the majority of this time.

For the New Zealand-based artists, priority will be given to those outside of Auckland (domestic flights will be provided).

MAKING AN EXPRESSION OF INTEREST:

If you are interested in this opportunity please send an expression of interest to info@rm103.org on or before Thursday 4 December (NZ time, and overseas artists, please note that we live in the future)

The expression of interest will need to tells us:
_ how you would like to use this time
_ whether there is any significance to being in Auckland,
_ and will include images / examples of your recent work.

PDFS are our preferred format for receiving submissions. Please contact us if you have audio or video files that you’d like us to view.

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An open-ended studio?

As with previous years, our intention is to divide the gallery space between the five participants. There has tended to be enough room for a desk and a good amount of wall and floor space.

For the residency we’d like to keep the office table and archive room available as a shared area, and have the five participants working within the remainder of the space. You’ll note that there are no dividing walls or partitions between the working areas: this may not suit all types of practitioner, but it is very much how we’d like to keep things. This is partly due to simplicity, but also because of our interest in the open-ended conversation that comes through working alongside one another.

Other facilities provided within the space:

_ WIFI

_ Basic office equipment and tools

_ Data projector and screens

_ A basic kitchenette with tea and coffee-making facilities.

_ Bathroom and washing tub

Access to the space is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Contact info@rm103.org if you have any questions or would like any further information.

Terrace Setting

// Opening Wednesday 5 November, 6pm
// Exhibition runs until Saturday 23 November 2014

Yolunda Hickman and Amy Unkovich present a series of paintings and objects that sit in a space between decorative and functional. Substrates contain and hold surfaces in space, using the texture and pattern of terrain as both material and image. Large spaces are compressed into dense pattern and ornamental facades are stretched across frames in a new spatial configuration. The outcomes are often a strange mix of colourful anti-form and structured geometric objects. Disjunctive surfaces and images meet and part between two and three dimensions. The geometric and structural meet with the formless and gestural.

Home Studio

// Opening Wednesday 15 October
// Exhibition runs until Saturday 1 November 2014

There are times when I feel like I’ve given over my home to my things. They nestle in, surrounded by the comfort of soft surfaces, colours, and complexity. I make an object, which then gets swallowed by the clutter, and the importance of its making becomes numbed by the mass of useless stuff it joins. Attempts at combining the art with the junk results in awkward objects. Attempts at categorising reveals endless categories. By engaging with this endless pile-up I am overwhelmed with a dizzying sense of both joyful possibility and painful impossibility.

The Home Studio project explores the merging and undoing of art objects in the home. As my studio dissolves into my home space new relationships between things start to emerge. Objects that I might call ‘house things’ and objects I see as ‘art things’ become vital to each other: they are both inhabitants of a space that has come to represent a history of production, need, and memory.

Collapsing horizons