"... 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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Dunedin; you're invited to Thick Cinema, CIRCUIT's 2017 Artist Cinema Commissions, 3pm Sunday 28 October at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Featuring work by Joyce Campbell John Di Stefano Sam Hamilton Kim Pieters Fiona Amundsen. Curated by Mercedes Vicente, introduced by CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams. One screening only, see you there! ...1 day 18 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 1 day 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 17 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 5 days ago
