Circuit

Left: Maria de Lima, This Map of Affections (2024). Courtesy of the artist. Right: Alex Monteith, Deepwater Currents (2020). Courtesy of the artist, commissioned by CIRCUIT with support from Creative New Zealand.
Featured podcast
Ka Mua Ka Muri: Alex Monteith and Maria de Lima
Ka Mua Ka Muri: Alex Monteith and Maria de Lima
"What care looks like". Maria de Lima (UK/ Brazil) and Alex Monteith (NZ) discuss using the moving image as a platform for global knowledge exchange and deep time awareness.
Recently added works

Working III (2024)
In his trademark suit and tie the artist undertakes a number of exercises in a gymnasium.

Fountain (The Touch of You) (2022)
Treating the fountain as a camp choreographic form, this work commits to one looping gestural phrase that renders movement as an object able to be perpetually transported and re-staged.

A display of steps rather loosely strung together (2025)
Unsettling the boundaries of the live, the recorded, and the yet to come, a dancer’s body appears to shift its own image as it pushes against the film grain.
Writing & podcast

Ka Mua Ka Muri: Thulani Rachia and Jamie Berry
Ka Mua Ka Muri: Thulani Rachia and Jamie Berry
Thulani Rachia (SA) and Jamie Berry (NZ) discuss their mutual use of dreaming, abstraction, repetition and rest to create "architectures of sanctuary".

Tessa Laird's CINEMAL
Tessa Laird's CINEMAL
“All film is made out of hooves”. Mark Amery speaks to writer Tessa Laird about her new publication Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film.

How to Programme a Cyborg, and Shannon Novak’s Generative Dopamine Loop Environment (2025)
How to Programme a Cyborg, and Shannon Novak’s Generative Dopamine Loop Environment (2025)
Lauren Yates examines the interface between technology and satisfaction in recent work by Shannon Novak.
News and opportunities

CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2026: Anahera Totoro
CIRCUIT's 2026 Matariki Artist is Anahera Totoro (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou).
