// Saturday 2 May 2015, 3pm

In 2014 Xin Cheng went to Cambodia for the second time, to do the Pisaot experimental arts residency hosted by the artist-run-space Sa Sa Art Projects in Phnom Penh. The experience was no less than mind-blowing. This Saturday she would like to share some of the adventures in researching makeshift creations and hosting surprising workshops with junk, and present a selection of documentaries made by the youths of the Aziza Community School, in the iconic White Building, where she lived for six weeks over the residency.

This gathering is part of makeshifting Cambodia & Aotearoa, a research project from Xin Cheng, generously supported by Asia New Zealand & Sa Sa Art Projects

A research project in the RM archive space with Sarah Rankin and Jonathan Rankin.

Island Project is a collaborative working group, temporarily based in RM gallery’s archive room. They are in the process of developing an inventory of island histories in the Auckland area, as well as two site-specific works, in Otahuhu and Waitakere, respectively. This project seeks to test, and make porous, the disciplinary boundaries between art and science, by crossing their particular lexicons and methodologies. Through this approach, Island Projectaims to enter into a conversation with landscape, which is able to drift into new and hopeful directions.

Hana Aoake
Leticia Durant
Karin Hofko
Layne Waerea

// Saturday 14 March 2015, 6pm – midnight

As part of White Night we have brought together four artists for an evening of performances at RM and in the surrounding neighbourhood.

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The closing event for ELECTIONS 2014, from 6pm, Saturday 20 September 2014

Old Folks Association Hall, Gundry Street, Newton

Wednesday Night Pottery presents:

A screening of Ghost

// 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.

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.

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