"Nicol’s work is like the poetic form of the elegy. It reaches out for contact with something that has been lost by reflecting on its representation - be that a photograph, a sculpture, a sound or a memory. Inevitably, as Nicol muses obliquely in the video, something is always missing." - Mark Amery
Commentary
Dec 21, 2018
"Here we have a triage of historical invocations, the first people, that conventional hook of the indigene in the landscape, the movie prop as representation’s terra nullius, its implicit celebration of history as a technological marvel of progress, and finally Arp’s poem, his sheer verbiage of associative words, violent and unsettling, deliberately flung across this landscape as a desolate site of colonisation." - Hamish Win
Social Circuit
Our Summer Reading Series #2 is an essay on Gray Nicol's Voodoo Dog (2009) by Mark Amery. A pioneer of New Zealand intermedia practice, Nicol attended Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in the late 1970s where he made several remarkable works in video, sculpture and performance. (Some of which is currently showing Auckland Art Gallery as part...8 hours 50 min ago
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A big CIRCUIT welcome to Elisabeth Pointon who joins our online catalogue. Check out this piece which pairs a family meditation with Crystal, an inflatable car yard dancer. Welcome Elisabeth! @basilheet https://t.co/BmpJ6aL0by https://t.co/X9wtfRj67k6 days 9 hours ago -
"Maybe the rumour is more potent than the work itself" - As we stream our 2016 Artist Cinema Commissions 'This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema' on the CIRCUIT homepage, we revisit this podcast with curator George Clark. 12 mins. @MrkAmery https://t.co/LOuzpxV8Jx https://t.co/nu6geSuXNI1 month 1 week ago
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Still from Louise Menzies' Go into the density of it (2016) one of six works from This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema, our 2016 Artist Cinema Commissions, streaming on https://t.co/gtu154LqJy this December! https://t.co/esOPwryDqW https://t.co/g5nXlKpeXe1 month 2 weeks ago
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"We're not necessarily pandering to what they might expect, but we're pushing forward conversations." Interview with @EnjoyGallery Director Sophie Davis and Taipei Contemporary Art Centre's Bochun Hsaio and Frankie Su https://t.co/REdUGDjbhM https://t.co/Pv1W7nyecT1 month 2 weeks ago
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"By reframing Paul’s cinema with new films, we hoped that an archive could be brought to life..." Essay by Canadian artist/curator Solomon Nagler accompanies an online screening of Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul (2015) https://t.co/8el67rwJ90 https://t.co/zdX2yzgQ9B1 month 3 weeks ago
