Performance artist Richelle Rich will be at Dimbola with her big Mr Whippy today, Thursday 7th August, between 2pm and 4pm where in exchange for your story and photo she will be giving you a free ice cream.
Come along with your favourite story and a smile, and Richelle will pounce on you for her “Ice Cream Stories” – and you get a free one-scoop ice cream from Dimbola!
Did we mention the free ice cream?
What’s it all about?
Since 2023 Richelle Rich has created numerous participatory performances in the US and UK, sharing soft serve ice cream with the public in exchange for stories that are documented on handwritten postcards, video, and with a vintage Polaroid camera.
The ice cream becomes a memory machine, provoking deeply personal stories of love, regret and belonging. These ever expanding narratives utilize the specific to expose the universal experience and the fallibility of memory.
Richelle exposes her Polaroid films to security x rays on her travels increasing the fragility of an already unpredictable medium.
Whis is Richelle Rich?
Richelle Rich is a British/Swiss artist born in London in 1967. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art in London 1997, and a BA (1st) from Central St Martins in 1995.
She moved from London to California 12 years ago and now lives and works in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, with her musician husband, Harry Waters, and their two teenage sons.
Richelle is the creator and curator of The Art House JT in Joshua Tree, a creative retreat, domestic exhibition and residency space in the remote desert of Joshua Tree, as well as the editor of The Ice Cream Stories Substack and The Art House Files newsletter.
A note for Newsletter readers
For those reading this in the Friday morning edition of OnTheWight’s newsletter, apologies. We only received the information on Thursday morning, so it missed that early morning newsletter.
