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Summer Reading Series 2018 #1: Oscar Enberg's Red Beryl

Writing Posted Dec 21, 2018
By Hamish Win
Detail, Red Beryl (2017) Oscar Enberg. Image courtesy of Hopkinson Mossman

"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

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 73: Complicated Love - 2018 in review

Podcast Posted Dec 18, 2018
By Mark Amery

In this two-part end of year podcast panellists Heather Galbraith, Shannon Te Ao, Simon Gennard join host Mark Amery to discuss the highs and lows of 2018, charting notable shows, artists and trends; the artworld's 'complicated love', and a year of diverse perspectives moving to the centre.

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"A contemporary art space is..." A conversation with Bochun Hsiao, Frankie Su and Sophie Davis

Interview Posted Dec 1, 2018
By Mark Williams

As part of an exchange with Enjoy Gallery in Wellington from 8 November-8 December, Taipei Contemporary Art Center present It Follows, a two part installation in Wellington which seeks to unpack some of the social, political and artistic ambitions of contemporary art spaces. CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams sat down with visiting TCAC curator Bochun Hsiao, TCAC board member Frankie Su, and Enjoy Director Sophie Davis to discuss the role of contemporary spaces like Enjoy and TCAC in an ever-changing landscape of institutional and artistic flux.

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Christopher Ulutupu, The Romantic Picturesque: The Postcard Trilogy, 1-25 November, The Physics Room, Christchurch

Writing Posted Nov 26, 2018
By Simon Palenski

The Romantic Picturesque presents the final installment of a 3 part series that follows "the thread of a romantic relationship between indigenous and coloniser."

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Fiona Amundsen, A Body that Lives, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, 28 September - 26 October 2018

Writing Posted Nov 15, 2018
By Elle Loui August

Foliage, soil, silence. It Was a Cave Like This (2017-18) opens to the lens drawing a gentle, verdant line, bringing the viewer into the cool sensations of an undergrowth. A voice; “You helped do this.” “...You helped light this flame.”

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Walking the Shore - From the Shore, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery (1 Sept - 4 Nov 2018) curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith

Writing Posted Oct 31, 2018
By Stephen Turner

Walking the shore is commonplace in this country. But are we looking out, or in? Who are ‘we’ here? What are we walking on, or along? And how far does the shore extend in time, place, and, well, film? - Stephen Turner

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Worth your while: A conversation with Elisabeth Pointon, Dilohana Lekamge and Laura Duffy

Interview Posted Oct 24, 2018
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Curated by Laura Duffy, worth your while is an installation for public art space Masons Screen. Featuring works by Elisabeth Pointon and Dilohana Lekamge, worth your while examines self care within the day to day environments of work and home.

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Paul Johns, Look At the Crowd in Swimming (Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch, August 2018)

Writing Posted Oct 1, 2018
By Hamish Win

"... 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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Artists in Conversation #6 - Vea Mafile'o & Jeremy Leatinu'u

Podcast Posted Sep 3, 2018
By Mark Amery

“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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Symposium 2018: The Time of the Now

Writing Posted Aug 17, 2018
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The Time of the Now is a one day symposium which explores the challenges of addressing ‘truth’ in a post-truth world. Register online here.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 72: An interview with Johan Grimonprez

Podcast Posted Aug 17, 2018
By Mark Williams

“The terrorist spectacle accommodates a dirtier game underneath”
- Johan Grimonprez.

Belgian artist Johan Grimonprez discusses his films Blue Orchids (2017) and dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), showing at City Gallery Wellington as part of the exhibition Iconography Of Revolt.

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