Circuit
Featured work
Stephanie Beth
I want to be Joan (1977)
The voices of women in post-war Aotearoa, the realities of domestic life as caregivers and housewives.
Recently added works
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.
Kaikōura Lights (2023)
Kaikōura Lights recontextualises 16mm film footage sourced from TV1’s investigative coverage of the Kaikōura lights on 3 Jan 1979, possibly New Zealand’s most famous UFO sighting.
Writing & podcast
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.
News and opportunities
Movies at the Marae
Moving image works by CIRCUIT artists will screen at the Kahungunu Marae in Nūhaka over 25–27 October 2024 as part of Movies at the Marae, a partnership with the Wairoa Māori Film Festival and Kahungunu Marae that celebrates the marae's 75th anniversary