RM Gallery & Project Space and Audio Foundation present an evening of sound performance hosted at RM.
The event will consist of sonic performances from Paradox Princess, Ducklingmonster and Odeious.
RM will be open with exhibitions from artists J Davies and Litia Tuiburelevu and Shaun Naufahu available to view in the main gallery space.
Friday 18 September, 6.30pm
RM loading bay
~Natasha Munro Hurn, musically known as Paradox Princess, is a trans artist working in the realms of queer liberation both sculpturally and sonically. Their project Paradox Princess is a concoction of both punk and hip hop infused into intense performances of a one girl party for everyone to witness.
~Ducklingmonster is an audio-visual artist from Onehunga, Auckland | Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand | Aotearoa. She investigates social sites through a range of practices with a focus on lively performance installations. Publicly, her work has predominantly been in experimental sound performance, most notably in the group The Futurians, and solo as Ducklingmonster. In 2024, she released the LP ‘I know…… a… way” on AudioFoundation Records.
Utilising a combination of scratched 45 records, broken beats emanating from a JVC boombox, field recordings of crashing oceans and Karangahape footpaths, electronic and vocal textures laid into walls of sonics – Duckling monster revels in the forgotten, neglected and overlooked. This collage of damaged sounds shines a light on lost passages of real time and space.
https://audiofoundation.bandcamp.com/album/i-know-a-way
https://ducklingmonster.com/
Watch the ‘Run Into Waves’ music video here: vimeo.com/981096785
~ PURVEYOR OF SALACIOUS NOISE, ODEIOUS
ODEIOUS, a double entendre for lyrical poem and arousing disdain, is the sonic and performance alias of Kat Lang. Employing the methodology of musique concrete, Lang utilises noise, mimetics, and audience-as-hostage-as-imperative.
Lang is an artist currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau, working across music, night life and entertainment industries. They completed their BFA (Hons) at Massey University in 2020. Their work revolves around an interest in intimate surveillance, bio/necropolitics, audienceship and absurdity.
Lang commonly uses sound, not as ornament or accompaniment, but as a communicative device for enticement and invasive force, rupturing the boundaries of comprehension and frustrating immediate cognition. Sound becomes an extension of the body through tools in a critically post-humanist manner. Noise here is a material of intensity, a method of disassembling coherence, used to unravel systems that tether the body to fixed narratives and stable meaning.