STARTIN SOMETHIN'

Greetings all,

this is a warm invitation to the official launch of the Party Art Movement, which is a movement that has been happening inside me for some time now, and is now ripe and ready to be shared with fellow revelers.

It will emerge from the opening for The Chinese Horoscope Show curated by Erica Van Zon.

6pm

Wednesday 15th Feb

Enjoy Gallery

Level 1/147 Cuba St

Wellington

I am representing the rat and will be showcasing the hard-out behind the scenes dynamically responsive intricacy associated with this gutter dwelling yet quick witted sign. At the opening some fellow rats and I will be opening a series of Prophetic Pass The Parcels, which hold densely packed layers of symbolic clues and keys to my vision for how this most extraordinarily super natural art movement might play out in the public arena.

The performance, What's Going To Happen... will start at 6.15 when Dad blows the whistle and Mum plies my fellow rats and I with tequila.

Within that performance there are 5 sections, although only a very keen eye will be able to deduce when one ends and another begins.

They are :

1. Everything for Nothing (A-Hole)

2. Tools and Arty Facts

3. Examination and Mock-Up

4. Mystery Achievement

and finally ...

5. Building a Rats Nest

although it could appear that we are just getting drunk and making a lovely mess, there will be much much more to it than that !

Come down for a once in a lifetime opportunity to see the hyprophesis for a mythical science experiment played out on the floor of an art gallery in the form of an esoteric party game !!

It sounds ABSOLUTELY NUTS doesn't it !?

Come and marvel about how something SO NUTS can at the same time be SO LOGICAL on very close inspection.

Could it be that being COMPLETELY NUTS is the only true form of sanity we have left ???

and that art is the safest umbrella word to be OPENLY NUTS under ?

If you miss the opening you can still pop down to the gallery to view :

Too Much Information

the physical installation that this rat party will result in. Until March 10.

Also, stay tuned for Canary In A Goldmine, a companion article to the show to feature in the next issue of Kerry Ann Lee's Dunedin based magazine, Permanent Vacation.

Til next time,

peace and puzzle parties,

Caroline

LATEST RAT MAIL-OUT

Caroline Anderson	7:03 PM (19 hours ago)
to Bek, Torben, kristen, maiangi, erica, Simon, Matt

Greeting rats and rat friends,


I am delighted to have you all on board with the unveiling of a few of my pretty psycho yet strangely logical behind the scenes activities at the Chinese Horoscope Art Show. (Enjoy Gallery, Feb 15th, 6pm)


I have titled the performance piece :


What's Going To Happen ...


(with this catchphrase :)


NZ's forerunning PASS THE PARCEL PROPHET, Caroline Anderson officially wonders : which came first?
THE FUTURE OR THE PRESENT?? in the context of a rat art opening.


Then the physical show which we install on site during the opening will be known as :


Too Much Information


I am especially pleased to have you on the team seeing as my performance history ranges from being Small Fox number 2 in Fantastic Mr Fox in standard 2 and Tina Turner in a miming Stars In Their Eyes the same year ('93). As well as being understudy for Gaunt in the Wanganui Intermediate production of Monsters ('97). That is all.


But a new era is dawning !!


And I am glad I have some mates to help ease me into it.



Til next mail-out,


Caroline


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I received this response from Erica Van Zon :

Hey Caroline - coolio - thanks for sending through, I have forwarded to Bopha - sounds good - the opening part we get now...all will be revealed..time traveling parcel, sort of like a time capsule..to your future self!

talk soon

XE


and this one from Michael Prior :


This notice has been magneted to the fridge door of my mind with a pineapple wearing sunglasses magnet that isn't very strong so it's sliding down the door just a bit.