Unfortunately the DECOLONISE event scheduled for this evening has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.
Please join us on Saturday evening 20/9 at the Old Folks Association Hall on Gundry Street for the closing event for ELECTIONS 2014, featuring a live stream, music and more…
// Thursday 4 September – Saturday 20 September 2014
// Opening event 6pm, Wednesday 3 September
What are the implications of putting energy and value into the voting process from the perspective of revolutionary politics?
With long and short term goals in mind, what does it mean to vote today? Does focusing on voting politicise young people or create a distraction from gaining critical perspectives on the current system that could achieve more substantial change?
How can we weigh immediate need against long term change and how can we put this into action?
ELECTIONS 2014 addresses these issues with discussions, performances, artworks and events from Wed 3 September – Sat 20 September at RM
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Wednesday 3 September, 6pm
opening night:
Performance by Hept
Tuafale Tanoa’i (AKA) Linda T
BJ’s soup
Asians for ACT: Oriental delicacies
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Thursday 4 September, 6pm
Imagining life after Capitalism
A group discussion with Aindriú Macfehin
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Monday 8 September, 6pm
Political Debate:
What are the implications of voting?
How to do it if you’re keen:
Tactical voting with Jonathan King
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Thursday 11 September, 8pm
Recordando de Once de Septiembre:
Remembering September 11, a film screeing of the movie ‘No’ with Daniela Reyes
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Thursday 18 September, 8pm
Decolonise:
Spoken word with the crew and guests
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Saturday 20 September, 6pm
Closing night
Election: Live stream at RM
Afterparty with Magic Sam and Linda T at Old Folks Ass, Gundry Street
// Saturday 9 August 2014, 12pm – 6pm
// Sunday 10 August 2014, 12pm – 4pm
// Opening reception from 5pm on Saturday 9 August
Brun Alen’s Scotch Thistle Kombucha will be available during Clement and van der Wal’s exhibition.
Making kombucha and managing business is something we do together. Is starting a business conjointly a 101 no-no for relationship wellbeing? Kombucha is a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast that, when brewed with tea, produces a sparkling fermented tea tonic. The myriad medicinal and nutritional uses attributed to kombucha have seen it labelled a ‘cure-all’ drink. Brun Alen is our kombucha brand. Based in Auckland, Brun Alen supplies galleries and events with small batch, specialty brews; a new flavour every fortnight.
For RM Gallery Brun Alen has produced a special tea. Scotch Thistle was introduced to New Zealand in the early 1800s inadvertently by farmers and is popularly considered a weed. Its health benefits include its astringent and anti-cancer properties. The bottle might be a locus for your attention, the moot point is how you are going.
Gesundheit. Brun Alen.
Brun Alen Kombucha on facebook
This is the third in a series of events at RM to accompany our participation in International Artist Initiated at David Dale Gallery. For this exhibition, RM has taken the work of thirteen collectives and collaborative groups to Glasgow. And for these associated events at RM we have invited the participants in our project at David Dale to look at ways that they might recontextualise their work for our community back in Auckland.
// Saturday 9 August 2014, 12pm – 6pm
// Sunday 10 August 2014, 12pm – 4pm
// Opening reception from 5pm on Saturday 9 August
Ben Clement and Bob van der Wal present a series of documentation artifacts from the collaborative work Supersite Cowboys, made for RM’s participation in International Artist Initiated in Glasgow
Working as foreign correspondents to one another, the iconic sight seeing experiences of LDN (van der Wal) are sent to AKL (Clement) as plastic souvenirs and images to be manufactured into new objects of movement: Glossed up, superimposed and slipstreamed, ready for competition. These objects are passed back to meet van der Wal in GLA to be sited and sighted within the media landscape of the 2014 XX Commonwealth Games.
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This is the third in a series of events at RM to accompany our participation in International Artist Initiated at David Dale Gallery. For this exhibition, RM has taken the work of thirteen collectives and collaborative groups to Glasgow. And for these associated events at RM we have invited the participants in our project at David Dale to look at ways that they might recontextualise their work for our community back in Auckland.
Wednesday Night Pottery presents:
// 6pm, Wednesday 6 August 2014
// RM, Samoa House Lane, Auckland
Every Wednesday evening for the past year, an interchanging group of artists and makers have been gathering in a shed in Grey Lynn to play with clay. The group is a mixed bag – of ages (mental and physical), expertise, and style. Rather than focusing on any specific outputs, the nights normally revolve around Making together, sharing techniques, resources, and laughs.
Whenever we tell anyone about the Wednesday Night Pottery group they always bring up the movie Ghost. Even the hit American television series Community has an ode, as the pottery teacher says ‘the one and only rule in this class – I will tolerate no reenacting, whether it is ironic or sincere, of the Patrick Swayze/Demi Moore pottery scene in ghost.’ It seems people are obsessed, and hey, why not– what could be better than Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore getting freaky to the Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody. Potters are sexy after all, so we are celebrating with a screening of the infamous film, a ‘ghost scene photo booth’, some food, and of course drinks.
6pm for 6.30pm movie start…
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This is the second event in Auckland to accompany RM’s participation in International Artist Run Initiatives at David Dale Gallery. For this exhibition, RM has taken the work of thirteen collectives and collaborative groups to Glasgow. We have also invited the participants in our project at David Dale to look at ways that they might recontextualise their work for our community back in Auckland.
During this time a selection of publications from the project in Glasgow will also be available to view.
making do(ing) presents –
// Saturday 2 August 2014, 4pm onwards
Games Afternoon at RM offers up a range of research artifacts as playthings from Cambodian slums, Auckland sub/urban zones, the Tokyo megaregion and more. Fluid game dynamics and warm-hearted late afternoon sustenance provide footholds for experimentation in psychological mapping, conversation, gift giving, ad-hoc archiving, and leveraging the memories of others.
Join us for an relaxing and stimulating afternoon of game playing and making in both finite and infinite modes (we’ll play with junk, and please bring some of your own!).
Frugal food will be offered. Please bring something to contribute to a weird buffet.
Companions and gamers so far include: Aya, Dan, Anna, Tullia, Nitika, Kim, Quishile, Hanna, Steph, Yurie, Hazel, Cole, Mellisa, Jess, Xin, and Chris, for a start.
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// At RM, first floor, 307 Karangahape Road,
Newton, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
// * NB: Entrance from Samoa House Lane
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This gathering is part of makeshifting Cambodia & Aotearoa, a research project from Xin Cheng, generously supported by Asia New Zealand & Sa Sa Art Projects
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This is the first event in Auckland to accompany RM’s participation in International Artist Run Initiatives at David Dale Gallery. For this exhibition, RM has taken the work of thirteen collectives and collaborative groups to Glasgow. We have also invited the participants in our project at David Dale to look at ways that they might recontextualise their work for our community back in Auckland.
During this time a selection of publications from the project in Glasgow will also be available to view.
From Wednesday 16 July, University Without Conditions will be running an open fortnightly reading group in RM’s archive room, starting at 6:30pm.
The reading group will focus on the book After Finitude by French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux about which Alain Badiou wrote it “opened up a new path in the history of philosophy, understood here as the history of what it is to know.” The chapters are short, but dense, and we will discuss a new one each fortnight moving through the book.
The reading group is open to anyone who wishes to participate and is facilitated by Melissa Laing and Robin Paulson who will be learning alongside and with everyone who participates.
// Opening 6pm, Friday 18 July 2014, at David Dale Gallery.
As part of our participation in International Artist Initiated, alongside Clark House Initative, Cyprus Dossier, Fillip, Fresh Milk and Video Art Network Lagos, RM has temporarily set up office in Glasgow, undertaking a project with contributions from (in reverse alphabetical order):
// Show runs until Saturday 3 August 2014
// At Glasgow Transport Boxing Gym, 136 Fordneuk Street, Glasgow, Scotland
(An auxillary space for David Dale and Studios during the duration of the Commonwealth Games)
The participants that we have brought together within this project are collectives and groups who work without a dedicated space, often moving beyond the confines of the gallery system. Though they operate independently of any fixed venue, there is still a strong sense of location in what they do. We have been drawn towards them because of the ways in which they activate local contexts and show a profound awareness of the communities that surround them.
RM is of course defined by the space it inhabits, but in these collaborative groups we see values we share, and things we aspire to. And given this opportunity it seemed to make sense to share this space with them.
Since 2009 an integral part of RM has been the project office – a dedicated part of the exhibition space that allows the co-directors of RM to be present and available for visitors. It is where meetings take place and also where we share food. During gallery hours it provides a place where visitors can sit, view the work, hold conversations and engage with RM’s slowly expanding archive. An open office, RM works on the principle that discussion, meetings, admin and paperwork are visible and not hidden away during exhibitions or events.
For IAI the structure of the RM project office has been transposed to Glasgow and activated by this selection of collaborative groups. Our office in Glasgow is being utilised as a meeting point for these disparate and fleeting, yet always collective and locally responsive activities.
During IAI there have been two panel discussions that are available to view online at thisistomorrow.info:
International Artist Initiated: Fresh Milk, 19 July 2014
(we’d recommend skipping to 30mins to get to the start of the discussion, unless you particularly like watching chairs being moved and plugs being plugged in)
Notions of common/wealth versus single/wealth’: a platform for representatives of the six invited networks to participate in conversations with each other and the Glaswegian audience. The aim of the conversations will, in part, be to unpack ideas related to the Commonwealth of Nations – the association under which countries gather every four years to celebrate sport, the XX edition taking place in Glasgow in the summer of 2014. The intention is to explore the context of IAI, as a gathering of Commonwealth Nations, and delve into how that relates to the work we all do as artist led initiatives. The concern is to unpack the Commonwealth as a macro, historical entity and understand our relationship to it, if any, and all that entails. Interrelated are ideas about the definition of wealth and value, both single and common, in our local context.
Fillip presents, Institutions by Artists,29 July 2014
(we’d recommend skipping to 18mins to get to the start of the discussion)
Sarah Lowndes & Matthew Richardson. Moderated by Jeff Khonsary.
Fillip presents a book launch and debate focused around current and past institutional practices by artists. Internationally, artists have produced institutional models that act as an alternative to the limitations of marketdriven priorities. Artist-run centres, collectives, and artists’ publishing initiatives form a network of activity that often stands in contestation to dominate economic models, while simultaneously appropriating their language and methods. Using an informal debate format, Sarah Lowndes and Matthew Richardson will address the performance and promise of contemporary artist-run centres and initiatives within the context of Glasgow, the UK , and beyond.
// Show runs from Thursday 3 July until Saturday 19 July 2014
// Opening 6pm, Wednesday 2 July
6pm, Thursday 12 June 2014