Rent Collective
Collaborative art making and the exchange of knowledge is the foundation of Rent Collective. Currently consisting of Garling Wu, Clovis McEvoy, Joseph Ravlich, and Christina Zhu, our members hail from a diverse range of creative disciplines and we embrace the challenge of synthesising our separate perspectives and skill sets to realise multisensory artworks. We all share a deep interest in socially and environmentally conscious artworks and, together, we want to make things that invite audiences to think, feel, and understand.
Composer | Artist
www.garlingwu.com
Composer | Artist
www.clovismcevoy.art
Architectural Designer | Artist
@_arthoejoe_
Architectural Designer | Artist
@icedpeach.gallery
Bios ↷
Garling Wu is an artist and composer whose practice is born from a love of music and technology.
In recent years, her curiosity has grown to encompass touch, gesture, light, scent and space within her work. Driven by a desire to fabricate spaces that evoke the rich inner imagination of her listeners, she plays with the human voice, field recordings, music, memory, and image schemas to imbue her art with meaning. Using technology, she folds together real and imagined sound worlds in the hope of creating an artistic experience that elicits a gestalt reaction, a kind of electroacoustic heterotopia that is more than the sum of its individual parts. Body tracking, electronics, spatial audio and live electronic performance are just a number of the tools she employs to this end.
Her work has been exhibited in Taiwan, and performed in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany and South Korea. She was born and raised in Aotearoa and graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters in Music with First Class Honours.
Clovis McEvoy is an award winning composer, sonic artist, interaction designer, and writer. His creative practice incorporates acousmatic and live electroacoustic music, interactive audiovisual installations, and music for virtual reality. Connecting all his creative works is a desire to communicate personal, societal, and environmental issues with directness and empathy. Currently, Clovis is focused on developing multisensory projects which draw from visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and interactive disciplines to communicate message and meaning through holistic experiences.
Clovis completed his Masters in music with 1st class Honours and a full scholarship from the University of Auckland in 2019 and has subsequently received a number of notable distinctions, including the APRA-AMCOS Professional Development Grant, the Donny Charitable Trust Scholarship, a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England, and the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize. Recent performances and exhibitions include ‘Calls for Cages’ (acousmatic, 2024) at Projecto DME Culture and Sustainability Festival in Lisbon, and at the Seanaps Festival in Leipzig, and ‘King Tide 皇潮’ (multisensory installation, 2024) at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, in London, and at Pier-2 Arts Centre, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Joseph Ravlich is an architectural designer with deep interests in multimedia art, cultural heritage, philosophy, fashion and self-expression. His Master’s Thesis, “WHO AM I? An exploration into the spatial expression of Self and One’s subjective experience of Existence” was concerned with one's introspective and multifaceted experience of daily existence, and how the often intangible range of feelings and sensations felt as one creates and refines their sense of self may be outwardly spatially expressed and explored through multiple media.
Joseph’s daily practice involves working at a multidisciplinary architecture, landscape architecture and urban design firm. Our work focuses on creating spaces that respond to the land and communities that inhabit them, with a focus on authentic collaboration with indigenous community groups to uplift and celebrate their stories. Joseph graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters in Architecture with First Class Honours.
Christina Zhu is an architectural designer with deep interests in photography, fashion, textile art and interactive spaces. Her personal design ethos is grounded within the intersections of gender, sociology, fashion and architecture; wherein her Master’s Thesis, “The Spectrum: Exploring the architectural application of nonbinary fashion” acted as a pivotal milestone for the culmination of this thinking, and the realisation of her research through built installations.
Her day-to-day practice involves the design and delivery of medium-high-density residential architecture, with a particular interest in the curation of interior spaces - the coalescence of form, materiality and considered details to create well-designed spaces that people love to reside in. Christina graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters in Architecture with First Class Honours.