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1991 (2016)
A portrait of Ruth Richardson—Minister of Finance for the National Government from 1990 to 1993—constructed out of shots of her house and garden, of a biotechnology company with which she is involved, and of a printer producing a 3D version of a weight that satirically represents the New Zealand economy.
Cold Storage (2017)
Cold Storage navigates ideas of archival value and cloud computing through a narrative based around the National Library of New Zealand’s move of the National Digital Heritage Archive from its own server room to a private infrastructure provider in Trentham, Upper Hutt.
Youth Portrait (2022)
Youth Portrait centres on a young real estate agent, Jadyn Dixon, and the entrepreneurial ideology that underpins his working life.
We Have Always Known the Wind's Direction (2019)
We Have Always Known the Wind’s Direction probes the possible burial of nuclear waste in the south of the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories, intimating at a more ungraspable violence just outside the frame.
Writing & podcast
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.
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CIRCUIT Curator-at-large 2024: Erin Robideaux Gleeson
Erin Robideaux Gleeson will be CIRCUIT’s Curator-at-large for 2024