Circuit
![Sketches of purakau are overlaid on shots of a lake at sunset](/images/1200/images/projects/antonia-van-sitter_manawatia-te-whenua-circuit.png)
Antonia van Sitter, Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata (2024)
Featured installation
Masons Screen
Masons Screen is a public screen for video art in Wellington's CBD. CIRCUIT curates the screen in collaboration with the Wellington City Council.
Recently added works
![He Pounamu Ko Āu](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/983981240.jpg)
He Pounamu Ko Āu (2022)
A kaupapa Māori experimental short film exploring wahine Māori identity, unfolding through moving image, pounamu pūrākau (storytelling), mōteatea (sung Māori poetry), and ambient sound.
![Food River](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/957392612.jpg)
Food River (2024)
Food River documents the present day occupation of land around Ōkaiawa in Taranaki, previously the site of dairy factories established by Thomas Joll in the 1880s.
![Every existent in the world is in my room right now](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/963712185.jpg)
Every existent in the world is in my room right now (2020)
The highs and lows of a family home during lockdown soundtrack scenes of the abstract, durational progression of dust particles through a series of small rooms.
![Footpath fossil (breathe)](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/963717215.jpg)
Footpath fossil (breathe) (2020)
Radar footage of broken footpaths near and around Karangahape Rd, Tāmaki Makaurau reveal the traces of previous attempts at repair. Filmed during the COVID-19 lockdown, the work constructs a psychogeographic map as well as a record of poetic moments of urban decay.
Writing & podcast
![A screen plays an underwater image in a darkened room. There are shaped piles of stones in the foreground.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/tia-barrett_install-coco-circuit.jpg)
Hihi Aho: Tia Barrett
Hihi Aho: Tia Barrett
"I see the environment as a creative partner" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Tia Barrett (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Tamainupō, Ngāti Maniapoto), the third and final episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.
![A woman in a sheer veil faces away from the camera; the light is golden. An installation view of a screen in a darkened room.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/a-hook-install.jpeg)
She calls to it with a new name
She calls to it with a new name
Kirsty Baker considers creation, expansion, and the contingencies of mystic Hildegard Von Bingen's Lingua Ignota in Sriwhana Spong's a hook but no fish (2017).
![Close up of thick seaweed in the ocean](/images/1050x660/images/posts/sandy-wakefield-nakunaku-2020.jpeg)
Hihi Aho: Sandy Wakefield
Hihi Aho: Sandy Wakefield
"Whanaungatanga is this gift we have as Māori to connect and to relate" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Sandy Wakefield (Ngapuhi, Ngāi Tahu), the second episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.
News and opportunities
![A close-up of an inset video screen sited in a pedestrian walkway](/images/1050x660/images/news/img_9459.jpg)
Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Commissions 2024/25
CIRCUIT invites proposals for the next annual series of artist commissions for Masons Screen