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Featured essayTe tuhituhinga o te wā

Alex Plumb: from rapture to rupture

By Fred Small · November 15, 2022

In Alex Plumb's moving image works, fact, fantasy and sonic detail imagine what reality might be.

<p>Alex Plumb: from rapture to rupture</p>
CIRCUIT is the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New ZealandKo CIRCUIT te māngai mō ngā mahi toi kiriata o Aotearoa

Ngā tāpiringa toi houRecently added works

‘Ofa
Sione Faletau

‘Ofa (2020)

One of four videos from the sculpture work Faai Kavei Koula (2020) ‘’Ofa’ translates to ‘Love’

‘Ofa
Glove
Samuel Ostermann

Glove (2022)

A sculptor wakes from sleep, their artwork is made in the presence of an unknown protagonist.

Glove
Tauhi Vā
Sione Faletau

Tauhi Vā

One of four videos from the sculpture work Faai Kavei Koula (2020) ‘Tauhi Vā’ translates to ‘Nurturing relationships’

Tauhi Vā
The Luring
Alex Plumb

The Luring (2017)

A visually-driven, psychological snapshot into the lives of three different people and what they desire

The Luring
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Tuhinga me ngā īpāhoWriting & podcast

Six people play a musical game, hitting each other with leather belts whilst facing each other

The Strap

InterviewUiuinga
By Judy Darragh · October 25, 2022

“It was proposed as a little musical game, but it does involve pain.”

Jeff Henderson speaks to Judy Darragh about nine videos referencing Aotearoa's history of corporal punishment

The Strap
A video game called Brain Island is displayed on an LCD monitor. In front is a blue joystick. Behind the monitor is a series of digital images from the game which are high gloss but whose content indistinct

Ritual of feeling

Exhibition reviewArotakenga
By Misong Kim · September 28, 2022

In the colonial grandeur of Pah Homestead, Xi Li's Brain Island simulates a pulsating futuristic fantasy

Ritual of feeling
A gallery with a wall of five large LCD screens, showing images of people by the ocean, and individuals addressing rooms suggesting highly formal or political settings. At right a line of government documents are framed as individual sheets of A4 paper. Some are torn.

Taking a line for a walk

Exhibition reviewArotakenga
By Connie Brown · September 22, 2022

Connie Brown writes on Sam Hamilton's installation at Artspace Aotearoa, Te Moana Meridian (2022)

Taking a line for a walk
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Ngā karere me ngā ara mahiNews and opportunities

A stairwell with the Masons Screen public art video monitor displaying an image of a rock form by Phil Dadson

Four new commissions awarded for Masons Screen

NewsKarere
September 26, 2022

Hana Pera Aoake, Matthew Cowan and Jana Müller, Xi Li and Leala Faleseuga to make new public artworks.

Four new commissions awarded for Masons Screen
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