Writing & Podcast
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
Artists Layne Waerea, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Gabriel White and Tia Barrett discuss their video works for Wild Wild Life with curator Mark Williams.
For TW (towards an amicable approach to video art)
For TW (towards an amicable approach to video art)
Victoria Wynne-Jones considers an amicable approach to historiography in three recent works by Tim Wagg.
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life is a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day. Featuring works by Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White.
To move between: Alanis Obomsawin
To move between: Alanis Obomsawin
Layne Waerea responds to To move between: Healing and Resistance, an exhibition of work by Abenaki Nation filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin, presented at Artspace Aotearoa.
It gets weird out there
It gets weird out there
Mark Amery considers the role of moving image in giving voice in the work of artist Cushla Donaldson, with a focus on the 2021 film, Neighbourhood of Truth.
Otherwise Worlding
Otherwise Worlding
Otherwise Worlding is 66-page e-book on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.
EMBODIED REALITIES
EMBODIED REALITIES
A conversation between artist Tanu Gago and filmmaker Raqi Syed on the occasion of Gago's participation in the exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds (2022).
Aliyah Winter: I am very fugitive
Aliyah Winter: I am very fugitive
In this expansive and lyrical text, writer Gwynneth Porter explores poetry, self-fictioning and plasticity in three recent works by Aliyah Winter.
Tāmaki's Spleen
Tāmaki's Spleen
Lila Bullen-Smith writes on she feeds the birds (2023), a dystopian filmic take on Tāmaki Makaurau by Lily Worrall.
In Pictures: LEGACIES | ROUTES in Bangkok
In Pictures: LEGACIES | ROUTES in Bangkok
A picture essay of CIRCUIT's trip to Bangkok, featuring Aotearoa artists Martin Sagadin, Pati Tyrell, Tanu Gago and a community of Thai artists and film-makers.
Sites of Connection: Hana Pera Aoake
Sites of Connection: Hana Pera Aoake
"I will not be afraid despite the fear tumbling through my body" — Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Haua, Tainui/Waikato, Ngāti Waewae, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu) speaks with Dani McIntosh for the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.
SPINNING AROUND
SPINNING AROUND
A conversation between artist Juliet Carpenter and writer Sebastjan Brank on the occasion of Carpenter's participation in the exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds (2022).
Sites of Connection: Selina Ershadi
Sites of Connection: Selina Ershadi
"Dwelling in the void space" — a conversation between Selina Ershadi and Dani McIntosh, the second part of the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.
The air, like a stone
The air, like a stone
Hamish Win writes on The air, like a stone, an exhibition at The Physics Room that brought together a new commission by Ōtautahi-based artist Emma Fitts with a feature-length work by the London-based painter and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi.
Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi
Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi
A conversation between James Tapsell-Kururangi and Dani McIntosh on the metaphoric and poetic potential of the moving image.
Road Toll
Road Toll
"The road as escape, the road as gendered independence and virility, as freedom. The road as an awfully white, awfully landed marker of progress and moral good." — Lachlan Taylor considers Grant Priest's recent exhibition CAN at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.
They Ain't Woke Yet: Hiona Henare in conversation with Leo Koziol
They Ain't Woke Yet: Hiona Henare in conversation with Leo Koziol
A conversation between artist Hiona Henare and curator Leo Koziol about Henare's 2023 Matariki commission for Masons Screen.
The act of reciprocity with the living land
The act of reciprocity with the living land
Hana Pera Aoake writes on Sorawit Songsataya's solo exhibition Nirun at the University of Otago's Hocken Gallery.
What sparks the words? Four writers on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art
What sparks the words? Four writers on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art
A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.