Circuit Podcast

CIRCUIT Cast Episode 86: Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon

Posted Jun 30, 2020
By Mark Williams

In this pod Moya Lawson speaks with Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon; two artists currently exhibiting public artworks in Wellington which celebrate Matariki, a star cluster used traditionally for ancestral navigation, timing the seasons and a marker of the Māori new year. Listen to Martin discuss his illuminated stills on the Courtenay Place lightboxes, and Tanya discuss her video on Masons Screen, Kōhatu Tipua (Supernatural Stones).

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 71: 2017 End of Year wrap-up

Posted Dec 11, 2017
By Mark Williams

For our 2017 recap, host Mark Amery is joined by Cameron Ah Loo Matamua, Abby Cunnane and Judy Darragh. Topics covered include; powerful women, generational shifts, emerging artists, Documenta, Labour's arts policy, great pieces of writing, documents and flags. Honourable mentions are made of many but include Sione Monu, Chris Krause, Leafa Wilson, Ahilapalapa Rands, Lana Lopesi, Luke Willis-Thompson, Matt Galloway,  Dirt Future, Gil Hanly, and  we raise a glass in memory of Paul Cullen.

Thanks to The Audio Foundation, Auckland for the generous loan of their recording facilities.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 69: Alexandre Larose

Posted Nov 23, 2017
By Mark Williams

"The film strip is a body acquiring memory". Ahead of group show PULSE / REPEAT at The Audio Foundation, Montreal film-maker Alexandre Larose discusses his recent New Zealand residency, the making of his work St Bathans repetitions and "putting myself in a situation I can't control".

PULSE / REPEAT 30 November-20 December 2017, The Audio Foundation, Auckland.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 68: Tautai Pacific Arts / Christina Jeffery interview

Posted Oct 4, 2017
By Mark Amery

What are the challenges and opportunities facing Pacific artists in New Zealand today? Christina Jeffery, Director of the Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, speaks to host Mark Amery about the successes of the Pacific art community and support needed for it’s growth and development.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 67: An interview with Mercedes Vicente

Posted Aug 17, 2017
By Mark Williams

On the phone from London, Mercedes Vicente discusses the curatorial process behind Thick Cinema, CIRCUIT's 2017 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions with new work by Fiona Amundsen, John Di Stefano, Sam Hamilton, Kim Pieters, Joyce Campbell. Thick Cinema premiers 6.30pm, Friday 25 August at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 66: An interview with Sam Hamilton

Posted Aug 16, 2017
By Mark Williams

In a CIRCUIT first, this pod takes place from the set of Sam Hamilton's new film. Phoning in from Portland Oregon, Sam talks to host Mark Amery about the newly commissioned work, screening at Christhchurch Art Gallery 6.30pm Friday 25 August ahead of this years CIRCUIT Symposium.

Still from FOR THIRTY YEARS, NANCY WOULD SIT OUT ON THE STREET CORNER AND WATCH THE SUNSET (2017). Sam Hamilton​. Commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 65: An interview with Fiona Amundsen

Posted Aug 10, 2017
By Mark Williams

Fiona Amundsen talks to Mark Amery about the forthcoming premiere of her CIRCUIT Artist Cinema commission A body that lives which examines the 1944 breakout of 1,000 Japanese prisoners from a prison camp in Cowra, Australia.

http://www.circuit.org.nz/project/thick-cinema-0

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 64: Acting Out

Posted Jul 7, 2017
By Mark Amery

In this pod Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and host Mark Amery discuss Acting Out, an Adam Art Gallery survey of New Zealand and international artists “who express the raw physicality of sex with varying degrees of candour.”

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CIRCUIT CAST Episode 63: Trudy Lane's Sunroom

Posted Jun 28, 2017
By Mark Williams

Inspired by the simple realisation that all energy for life on Earth comes from the Sun, Trudy Lane’s Sunroom is an installation that stretches to encompass astrophysics, energy, ecology, and cosmologies.

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CIRCUIT CAST Episode 62: Michael Nicholson

Posted May 29, 2017
By Mark Williams

"One thing has led to another..." On the release of a career spanning book, 101 year old artist Michael Nicholson talks to Mark Amery about art, the power of the absurd, witchcraft, mystic philosophy and "the power to live life gracefully".

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 61: Mairi Gunn

Posted May 16, 2017
By Mark Williams

How do we fill in the blanks of our own histories? Speaking to host Mark Amery at the Pah Homestead, artist Mairi Gunn discusses the backstory of her recent installation Common Ground, which examines common experiences of dispossession and belonging amongst New Zealand Māori and Scottish Highlanders. In this wide-ranging conversation Mairi discusses working as a woman in the film industry with figures including Merata Mita; moving into the realm of contemporary art; public funding and difficult conversations.

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