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rm103:

OPENING:
Wed 3 December

Products and Services, Part 2
Group Project, Charlotte Fisher, Michelle Osborne, Antz Clark and Julia Oram

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-- Thurs. 4 December - Sat. 20 December 2008 --

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Products and Services returns to rm103 for the second year with a selection of new works by designers and artists: products to solve some everyday problems, projects that seek to improve upon existing products or works that simply make life more interesting. The exhibition offers a range of products and services that deliver inspiring and downright practical ideas for your home and everyday life.

An exhibition of functional objects and useful services, organised by Catherine David, Xin Cheng and Helen Finlayson. Products and Services, Part 2 features works designed by Group Project, Charlotte Fisher, Michelle Osborne, Antz Clark and Julia Oram.

THE ARTISTS:

Group Project
Cardboard fold-up shelf for display of lightweight objects.

The shelves are die-cut into 2 shapes to create shelves that are either landscape or portrait orientation. They are easily attached to a wall to show off your special collections, mementos or souvenirs (as seen in the Lightweight show.)

Charlotte Fisher aka. Wwwww.whitewomanworkingwithwood
Cargo Light

A lampshade with a composite photo of a container ship in Auckland Harbour stream.

Navigational lights are the beacons that guide ships safely to port. These cargo lights work to light the ships, to illuminate the passage of cargo to home, to port. Like a shipping container holds cargo, the photograph holds a moment of time while the shade holds the light source. Beacons that navigate us home in the dark.

Michelle Osborne
Lucky Dips

The Lucky Dip is a small act of kindness from artist to viewer, an art service designed to lift the spirits of the gallery visitor. This service is a tangible reminder of your visit here and a reminder of the work of the artist. Like any business, lots of little things go toward making the big thing, so take a lucky dip and take home a tissue parcel, a work of art, a tangible reminder of your time here.

Antz Clark
Have You Ever Felt The Light

Squeezed and thrown around the room, leaned up against a bookshelf, put on the floor in the living room or even thrown onto the end of the bed. A soft, touchable, squeezable light that creates an immediate, intimate, user-friendly relationship between the user and object.

Julia Oram
Greensleeve

In the present economic climate there is rising interest in the need to conserve our natural resources. Greensleeve is a nifty product that changes the way you use water in the home and saves you money. The product restricts the opening of a bathroom or kitchen tap to reduce water usage, and unlike other similar products on the market, the Greensleeve can be applied to any water faucet by anyone, anytime, anywhere.

rm103:

OPENING:
Wed 12 November

Collaborative Drawings
Simon Esling & Scott Satherley

Poster Exhibition and Opening-Night Performance
Stink Magnetic Record Company

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-- Thurs. 13 November - Sat. 29 November 2008 --

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rm103:

OPENING:
Wed 1 October

Things Fall Apart
Kirsten Dryburgh
Harriet Stockman
Andrea Low
Melanie Rands

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-- Thurs. 2 October - Sat. 18 October 2008 --

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rm103:

OPENING:
Wed 10 September

CKG 08
Salvatore Panatteri

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Panatteri's spatial practice enables a constant re-evaluation of the architecture or space being developed through electronic intersections. In doing so Panatteri creates an aesthetic phenomenon that radiates both backward and forward in time, retrospectively informing the work he has created before and the subsequent work to come. This imperative enables Panatteri's mode of practice to become a constant examination of context and content in which art is encountered, an acknowledgement of the viewer’s embodied state.

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-- Thurs. 11 September - Sat. 27 September 2008 --

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rm103:

The Perspectives of Elsehwere
Hello Lamb

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Brydee Rood, Ryuzo Nishida, Keng-Pin Hsu & Tessa Laird

with invited Japanese artists:
Kakuro Sugimoto, Koshi Kawachi, Kennyuu Oku, Go Watabe, Daisuke Watanabe, Genda Yoshinaga, Takashi Otaguru, Ichiro Endo & Kimita Hattori

curatorial development:
Michelle Armistead

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 3 September 2008

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-- Thurs. 4 September - Sat. 27 September 2008 --

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rm103:

LOST AND FOUND: Concrete Findings
Tilman

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Resort Wear All Year Round
Clara Chon & Charles Ninow

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 13 August 2008

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-- Thurs. 14 August - Sat. 30 August 2008 --

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rm103:

Mystic Pizza
Teresa Peters

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Publication Project
Katie Theunissen, Gaura, Theresa Gethen, Mark Foster, Clara Chon & Milli Jannides

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 23 August 2008

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-- Thurs. 24 July - Sat. 9 August 2008 --

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rm103:

Kathy Barry

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Left Glass
Richard Bryant

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Noisy World
Kentaro Yamada

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 2 July 2008

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-- Thurs. 3 July - Sat. 19 July 2008 --

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rm103:

B’ROKE

Andre Tjaberings & Simon Esling

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 11 June 2008

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-- Thurs. 12 June - Sat. 28 June 2008 --

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rm103:

ORIGINALS BY//
Michael Chal
drawings
Simon Findlay
paintings
Ena Kosovac
paintings
Kathryn Tsui watercolours

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 11 June 2008

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-- Thurs. 12 June - Sat. 28 June 2008 --

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rm103:

Does Rudy Speak
from the Beyond

Kirstin Carlin &
Michael Mitchell

-- Thurs. 22 May - Sat. 7 June 2008 --

Does Rudy Speak from the Beyond?
Could the past come back to haunt us through a feeling of a time gone by or timelessness. On offer is a glimpse into another world or reality containing people and places that are strange yet familiar. A fictional reality with a dreamlike pace including fallen movie stars, lost icons, forests and follies.

–K.C. & M.M–

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studio103:

Group Project

-- Five-Week Open Studio Project --

Melanie Rands,
Andrea Low,
Harriet Stockman,
Kirsten Dryburgh
& Susie Pratt

-- Until Sat. 7 June 2008 --

Melanie Rands, Andrea Low, Harriet Stockman, Kirsten Dryburgh & Susie Pratt have made a commitment to exhibiting together for a year, starting with this project at rm103. Our back room has become a shared studio, with works rapidly developing and changing shape within the small confines of the spaces.

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SHOP103: Opening, 6pm Fri. 21st December 2007 -

The Fifth Annual End of Year Shop

Including recent additions from-

Asumi Mizuo, A.D. Schierning, Boris Dornbusch, Canary Gallery, Campbell Patterson, Christina Read, Colleen Templeton, Craig Hilton, Dane Taylor & Kerry Anne Lee, Erica van Zon, et al, Fiona Connor, Hungwei, Lindsay Pemberton, Martyn Reynolds, Matthew Crookes, Megan Hansen Knarhoi, Nicholas Spratt, Rebecca Steadman & Kylie Duncan, Richard Francis, Robin Charles, Sam Hamilton, Sarah Gruiters, Saskia Leek & Nick Austin, Simon Esling, Tessa Laird and more to be confirmed

Abandon the malls and enjoy our safe haven: SHOP103 once again brings you seasonal treats, far away from the torturous sounds of Christmas muzak and those shopping-trolley derbies. Think arts & crafts, homemade, boutique, end of year art bargains, handcrafted or designer made, art-factory or cottage industry... with prices ranging from zero to one hundred dollars. We've got a swag of new stock especially for the end of year, some old and new favourites plus some great bits and pieces from our stockroom.

Avoid those sweat-shop products or chainstore nasties, and support the people right here in your own neighbourhood: ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO THE ARTIST whose work you are buying. This is not a rm103 fundraiser, but a chance to support the artists whose work we love.

Online catalogue available here soon.

And courtesy of William Hsu, SHOP103 now includes
free delivery in the Auckland area!

Shop open Friday night and Saturday only

rm103: Opening, 6pm Wed. 12th December 2007 -

Products and Services: Part 1
An exhibition of functional objects and useful services

Organised by Catherine David and Kate Brettkelly-Chalmers

With products or services designed by Tao Wells, Helen Finlayson, Nicole Tarlton, the Mail Alert Team, Elliot Glen Collins, Nick Spratt & Lauren Winstone, Lindsay Pemberton, William Hsu

Products and Services is a show that developed from a few simple aspirations: it sought to gather a series of objects and activities that offered a useful function or facility to rm103's gallery visitors. This is an exhibition of things that, guided by a principle of utility, have been thoughtfully devised to work in some way. Sturdy practicality and dexterous handy-ness are held in high regard.

Products and Services allowed artists and designers the opportunity to manufacture their ideal product or that oddball idea that would never otherwise make it to market. Samples, prototypes and handy activities - from linoleum wall-hangers to a postal alert service will be available to peruse until Saturday 22 December.

// Thursday 13 December - Saturday 22 December 2007

rm103: Opening, 6pm Wed. 14th November 2007 -

Portal in a Storm
A Group Show

There's a trans-tasman extraveganza coming up at rm103 this week: Each of our rooms is overflowing with works by New Zealand and Australian artists, in a show brought together by Rebecca Ann Hobbs.

Nicola Farquhar was the first artist to show at rm103- all those many moons ago - and we are delighted ot have her showing here again, alongside a swag of artists who will be showing with us for the first time. We are also very happy to announce that Louise Hubbard, Lucreccia Quintanilla and Nick Selenitsch have come across from Australia for the opening.

Join us at the opening at 6pm, or come along to the after-party at Tabac, where Jon Bywater and Lucreccia will be DJing after 8pm.

rm103: Opening, 6pm Wed. 7th November 2007 -

Snowbird Gallery Project: Feasibility study – ‘findings to date’
Andrea Gaskin &
Linda Roche

On Wednesday 7 November Linda and Andrea will open up the project space at rm103 to present the The Snowbird Gallery Project ‘findings to date’. They have been ensconced in the project space for the last month gathering the information that they had identified as being necessary to move their venture to the next level. During this time they have been interviewing a wide range of creative folk, becoming adept at fast tracking the automated message services that are a hallmark of the government bodies that they have been in discussion with, negotiating the raft of parking wardens that trawl the streets outside rm103 and... eating lots of jaffas. Already they have found that certain aspects of their project are likely to be more complex than they originally anticipated and others areas already seem to be unfolding in a surprisingly fluid way.

Join them for cake and a tipple on the 7th – if you haven’t been in to talk to them already they’d love to hear your thoughts on what they’re up to.

Now showing at rm103:
Playing rm b
Dieneke Jansen

They Synth Ballet
Richard Frater &
John Ward Knox

- Thursday 25 October - Saturday 10 November 2007

Equal to the love you make.
Richard Frater & John Ward Knox

J. I’ve never been to a ballet, but Ritchie has, and he says it’s like break-dancing, but more beautiful, and less intense. I think that all movement is just controlled falling, and to me ballet feels like it’s trying to trick us into ignoring this. Ballet is like trying to pretend that we don’t have a human form, and instead can embody some ethereal quality, like the wind, or a bird, or love. But maybe that’s interpretive dance, I don’t know, I’ve not been to an interpretive dance either.

R. It was nothing spectacular, a rehearsal, no costumes and noticeable mistakes. They wore a used off-white that softened the contours of their flesh, making their bodies uniform. With little expectations, I remember a motion where the appearance of lightness proved seamless a line of taut, precise steps.

It is no longer a performance for an elite. An elite may attain superior seating but rest assured this kind of play is on the streets and dance floors. All things are in motion. The most loaded and weighted of materials are put to use here un-apologetically. If you want ballet you will need to dance.

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Playing rm b
Dieneke Jansen

Playing rm b brings together concerns that Dieneke has been exploring within the terrain of the sportfield as a site of regulated performance and that of photography as a representational mimetic tool. Playing rm b attempts to play out the simulation of both photography and sports performance thereby questioning the sociocultural framing of the ‘natural.’

SHOP103:
New additions to the shop cabinet: Limited edition works by et al., Thai ties by Tessa Laird, a tea towel by Asumi Mizuo, and rm103's Gutenberger books or view the online catalogue to see other recent stock

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rm103:

LOST AND FOUND: Concrete Findings
Tilman

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Resort Wear All Year Round
Clara Chon & Charles Ninow

Opening: 6pm
Wednesday 13 August 2008

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-- Thurs. !4 August - Sat. 30 August 2008 --

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