Amanda Newall is an artist/educator currently based in Europe. In 2016 Newall returned to New Zealand for a series of screenings of The Hoover Diaries, co-presented with CIRCUIT.
A childhood toy becomes a life-sized costume for the artist to wear while on residency in the desert of Andalucia, Spain.
Act Normal interweaves a sailor costume worn by Andrew Fagan of The Mockers with scenes from one of Newall’s early 2000s video performance works.
This film connects three seemingly disparate events that occurred during the artist's teenage years in Timaru.