Circuit
Featured work
Lucy Aukafolau
Morning O'ua (from Invisible Territories) (2013)
A three-channel sequenced video installation of footage taken during Aukafolau’s first trip to Tonga with her father and uncle.
Recently added works
This Housing Thing (2021)
Flipping through family photo albums and scrolling through web footage, This Housing Thing hinges on the desire for housing security and access as a human right. Why this housing thing?
Areas A & B: Housing in New Zealand (1946–) (2015)
Documentation of a community event organised for the local residents of East View Road in Glen Innes, at which Dieneke Jansen projected the 1946 film Housing in New Zealand onto the wall of an old state house that was about to be demolished.
Erotic Geologies (trailer) (2024)
A sci-fi parable that seeks knowledge from the underground, Erotic Geologies follows protagonists Rangi and Liberté, characters inspired by both Māori mythologies surrounding the figures of Ranginui and Papatūānuku’s children, and Greek figures Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Writing & podcast
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Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Hana Pera Aoake considers the poetic and generative role of whakapapa—a means of creating layers—in Emily Parr's Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla (2021).
Erotic Geologies: Nat Tozer
Erotic Geologies: Nat Tozer
"There is a vitality that is held in the earth" — a kōrero between artist Nat Tozer and CIRCUIT director Mark Williams on the occasion of the Aotearoa premiere of Erotic Geologies, Tozer's most complex work to date.
Art/Action
Art/Action
Artists Dieneke Jansen and Heleyni Pratley discuss using art as a tool for social justice, moderated by Mark Williams and presented at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space in association with the exhibition Homing Instinct.
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CIRCUIT Artist Survey 2025
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