Daniel Sanders
Daniel John Corbett Sanders, born 1994, is a Pākehā artist and curator based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. He is interested in critical geographies and social power structures, especially the relationship between LGBTTQIA+ citizens and political economies. His work is fantastical, and often references film techniques by playing with storyboarding, vignettes, and narrative.
Recent exhibitions include Wild Once More (Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2022); Becoming Animals (Play_Station, Pōneke Wellington 2022); Broken Sovereignty (Lightship, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2022); Urban Nothing (RM Gallery and Project Space, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 2021).
Daniel Sanders on CIRCUIT · 4 works
Queen of the Round Table (2022)
Queen of the Round Table (2022) follows takātapui activist Tashera Farrah Carter in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
QOTRL (Queen of the Rainbow Leis) (2019)
A singer with gold nail polish, eye shadow, and a rainbow lei, serenades the camera.
Allegory/Ruin (2018)
Dance music plays from an unseen source as a mop, filmed vertiginously from above, cleans a concrete floor.
Dear John (urban phantasmagoria) (2018)
The image of a young man in central Auckland is leant a phantasmagorical element by the rotation of the camera.
Writing & podcasts featuring Daniel Sanders
Daniel Sanders & Neihana Gordon-Stables
Daniel Sanders & Neihana Gordon-Stables
In the third part of our podcast series Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image, host Robbie Handcock speaks to Neihana Gordon-Stables and Daniel John Corbett Sanders.