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Artists In Conversation #3 - Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn

Podcast Posted May 15, 2018
By Thomasin Sleigh

"It's about bringing the conversation into the stuff people don't bother talking about" - Marie Shannon

In this pod host Thomasin Sleigh welcomes Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn for an extended discussion about Marie's survey at the Adam Art Gallery Rooms Found Only In The Home, Megan's new book Tinderbox, navigating the decisive moment, the plight of the submerging artist, and being subversive... but in a mild way.

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Floors and time and shapes - Campbell Patterson: toot floor, 17 February - 14 April 2018, Hocken Collections, Dunedin

Writing Posted Apr 19, 2018
By Robyn Maree Pickens

Is the rustling of Snickers wrappers beneath my feet a filmic moment? The gallery floor is strewn with them, and with grapefruit seeds, which I initially mistook for peanuts. Is the weight of a person crushing grapefruit seeds a filmic moment?

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Luke Willis Thompson, Adam Art Gallery. 21 February–14 April, 2018

Writing Posted Apr 5, 2018
By Hamish Win
Luke Willis Thompson, How Long?, 2018

"... still silent and still casually interrogative, the subject (is) prone before the camera. And yet, unlike previously, there’s no steady emotive subject here." - Hamish Win

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CIRCUIT Cast: Artists In Conversation #2 - Sorawit Songsataya and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy

Podcast Posted Mar 26, 2018
By Mark Amery

“I would like to see thinking understood as a materiality.” - Bridget Riggir-Cuddy

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CIRCUIT Cast: Artists In Conversation #1 - Phil Dadson and Sean Kerr

Podcast Posted Mar 13, 2018
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It doesn't matter if you're in a bloody gallery or not as long as you're making stuff" - Phil Dadson.

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The 24 hours plan: 3 commissions for Masons Screen

Writing Posted Mar 6, 2018
By Thomasin Sleigh

"... it’s important too, to have public art that is nimble, mouthy, and directly responsive to the political, environmental, and social exigencies of our times." Thomasin Sleigh writes on three recent commissions for Wellington public art space Masons Screen.

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A potentially eternal cycle: James Oram's Wallpaper

Writing Posted Feb 11, 2018
By James Hope

Having set up the conditions under which the cycle reproduces itself, what role does Oram then affect? Capitalist puppet master? Fatuous market analyst? Or the superlative customer of all that is good and right? From our 2017/18 Summer Reading Series.

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Looking for life in a sea of loss: on Jasmine Te Hira’s Lost Content (2013) and The Beauty of Invisible Grief (2016)

Writing Posted Feb 6, 2018
By Tara Judah

"Whether her hand is open, closed, or reaching, there is life in every gesture." Tara Judah writes on the work of Jasmine Te Hira. From our 2017/18 Summer Reading Series.

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Ana Iti - Before the displays

Writing Posted Jan 14, 2018
By Simon Palenski

“It was as if Māori had never been explorers who came to Aotearoa using a sophisticated system of navigation by the stars and ocean currents..." Simon Palenski writes on Ana Iti's Treasures Left by Our Ancestors (2016). From our 2017/18 Summer Reading Series.

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Into the abject: looking at Laura Duffy

Writing Posted Dec 19, 2017
By Priscilla Howe

CIRCUIT's 2017 Curatorial Intern Priscilla Howe writes on the video work of Laura Duffy, and her intersection of the beautiful and the grotesque.

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E-book: The Thickness of Cinema

Writing Posted Dec 11, 2017
By Mark Williams

CIRCUIT is very proud to announce The Thickness of Cinema e-book. 100 pages of interviews and discussions from the 2017 CIRCUIT Symposium / Artist Week 22-27 August in Otautahi / Christchurch. Free download below.

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