Occasionalist/ rice and beans
15 December, 2011.
17 December, 2011.
Cushla Donaldson, Claire Mahoney, Clara Chon, Golden Snood, 2012.
24th January, Risograph Tutorial
27 January, 2012.
Pauline presents Mumma alien.
27 January, 2012.
Dawn sausage sizzle and poetry reading with Pauline.
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February
Claire Mahoney, Grid and Untitled Floor Peice.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February
Cushla Donaldson, Pureveneer, Claire Mahoney, untitled (bowls), Bob Van Der Wal, Untitled. 10022012.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February
Clara Chon, Mat Bag.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February
Oscar Enberg, Nail party tipz'n ideaz and Re-application refreshment break (jarrah)
Clara Chon, Mat Bag.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February.
Cushla Donaldson, Softpower.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February.
Claire Mahoney, Untitled (bowls).
Photographer: Sam Hartnett
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February.
Claire Mahoney, Tighten your belts.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February.
Gilbert May, Full dot.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
16 December 2011
occasionalist: the end, 10 February - 25 February.
Bob Van Der Wal, Untitled 10022012 with rice and bean sign.
Photographer: Sam Hartnett.
As their website laconically puts it "rice and beans is an artist run space in Dunedin, New Zealand." The contact page is simply "us@riceandbeans.org.nz" and the site's homepage disjunctively redirects to an obscure Austrian URL. It keeps shifting colours: mobile and ungraspable, evasive perhaps. The space itself is located on the second level of a central Dunedin building whose anonymous looking entrance was found (when sought) between a whiskey bar, a sweat lodge and a restaurant .... Stairs, carpet, stairs, wood, windows....
The project's three initiators signed a one year lease for 2011 and hosted discussions, performances, residencies and offered 12 exhibitions. After almost exactly a year from their first project, they accepted Artspace's invitation and thus brought their playful tension to Auckland.
Rules will be applied to precarious geometries and economies; the triangle between anonymity, authority and singular production will be tested and reconfigured through different phases; boundaries, nodes and connections will be twisted, inflected, dissolved and resolved. The operation will evolve and digress, but also deconstruct and destroy and reflect on its own economies.
Over the duration of the show, Artspace and rice and beans hosted a number of different guests and events. There was no official opening, but rather an evolving labour towards something that manifested in a series of different and overlapping configurations.