"... Johns’ is deeply immersed in the symbol not as a western cultural apparatus, a semiotic of contested bio-politics but as a divisible structure, a meditative aid that backs onto a compassionate, beatifically contemplative worldview" - Hamish Win
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Oct 1, 2018
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Sep 3, 2018
“What is true to you may not be true to your neighbour.” -Vea Mafile`o
Ahead of the premiere of Truth or Consequences, CIRCUIT’s 2018 programme of Aertist Cinema Commissions, Vea Mafile`o and Jeremy Leatinu’u discuss responding to curator Erika Balsom’s brief which challenged the artists to consider personal and public ‘realities’.
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Revisiting our 2017 e-book, The Thickness of Cinema; a 100 page free pdf of interviews and discussion; catch related shows Thick Cinema next weekend at Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and Fiona Amundsen's A Body that Lives now on at ST PAUL St Gallery. Download via the link below -...3 days 13 hours ago
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"Against essentialist conceptions of gender...Weight (by Andrew de Freitas) recovers...the right to craft the contours of one’s own existence." - Erika Balsom. See the film Thursday night at@CityGalleryWgtn https://t.co/0OLeyw7MOI https://t.co/Bd6iMIJooD2 weeks 6 days ago -
This weekend in London @closeupcentre , as part of Aperture Asia & Pacific Film Festival CIRCUIT presents six NZ works exploring migration and exchangplus a talk between Bridget Reweti and curator Sonali Joshi. https://t.co/z3KWTycOxE https://t.co/RFKrGvCtxR3 weeks 5 days ago
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Tomorrow we present the CIRCUIT Symposium T https://t.co/ondCyYY9f7 he Time of the Now at AUT, if you havn't registered already, please sign up below as we will cater a light lunch based on numbers. All the info is in the link :)1 month 1 week ago
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Super excited for tonight's premiere of Truth or Consequences in Auckland! New works by Vea Mafile'o, Jeremy Leatinu'u, Janine Randerson, Bridget Reweti, Andrew de Freitas, Q&A with curator Dr. Erika Balsom. 6.30pm, Ellen Melville Centre. See you there! https://t.co/PUQaZEOOwS1 month 1 week ago
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Jeremy Leatinu'u's Mai i te kei o te waka ki te ihu o te waka (2018) maps different perspectives on the journey of the waka Tainui. See it 6.30pm Friday at the Ellen Melville Centre as part of Truth or Consequences, 5 new films from a 'post-truth' world https://t.co/6TU3kitPVe https://t.co/KqmmI8gKlQ1 month 1 week ago
