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2021
James Charlton - Mobilise
2020
(ex)CLAIM: Tanu Gago
ex(CLAIM): Kahurangiariki Smith
Nathan Pohio, Let it be to a Lofty Mountain, Christchurch Arts Centre, 20-29 Aug 2020
(ex)CLAIM: Jamie Berry
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 92: Rangituhia Hollis
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 93: Alex Monteith
Episode 91: Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Rebecca Hobbs, Qiane Matata-Sipu
CODESWITCH: Relearn, Reimagine, Recreate - a FAFSWAG Manifesto for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney
(ex)CLAIM: Suzanne Tamaki
Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image - Episode 2: Aliyah Winter and Laura Duffy
Pressing the Bruise: a review of Human Hand by Fiona Amundsen and Tim Corballis (Dowse Art Museum 6 Jun – 11 Oct 2020)
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 87: an interview with M D Brown
Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image - Episode 1: ZK Steiner-Fox
CIRCUIT Cast 88: Revisiting HADHAD - a conversation with Sean Grattan and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 86: Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
On The Verge: Ronnie van Hout’s 'Ghosting' (Ivan Anthony 4 March - 4 April 2020)
Duration
I’m on a Dreamliner: Pillows by Sonya Lacey (Paludal, Christchurch 20 March – 3 April 2020)
Embracing the cacophony: Sydney Biennale 2020
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 85: Never Waste A Crisis - a conversation with Judy Darragh, Ary Jansen, Lisa Reihana
CIRCUIT Cast 84: an interview with Darcell Apelu
Truth or Consequences: an essay by Erika Balsom
No-one works alone: an interview with Bruce Barber
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 83: an Interview With John Walter
History, the sky, and the street: three new commissions for Mason’s Screen
Where Two Oceans Meet: Listening and Foreignness in Olivia Webb’s Anthems of Belonging
"You think you know me?" - Rotterdam Film Festival 2020
Amator (2019) Selina Ershadi & Azita Chegini, RM Gallery & Project Space Dec 4 -14, 2019
2019
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 82: 2019 in review
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 81: an interview with Tanu Gago
The testimonial
Sounding out feeling in Offspring of Rain: Sorawit Songsataya & Antonia Barnett-McIntosh at Enjoy
Refraction!
Two installations by Joyce Campbell at the Adam Art Gallery, 27 July to 20 October 2019
The Vision of Participatory Parity: a conversation between Cushla Donaldson and David Hall
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 80: an interview with Chevron Hassett
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 79: an interview with Serena Bentley
CIRCUIT Symposium 2019: From Me To You - full schedule
CIRCUIT presents AURA Festival of Artist Moving Images
Kā paroro o haumumu: Coastal Flows/Coastal Excursions, by Alex Monteith Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 01 June - 29 September 2019
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 78: an interview with Alex Monteith
limited means = maximum results: an interview with Clinton Watkins
Uiuinga #4: a conversation with Shannon Te Ao
Cinematic absorption in Sam Rountree Williams’ recent paintings
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 77: New strategies for Auckland Galleries
Uiuinga #3: a conversation with Rachael Rakena
Uiuinga #2: a conversation with Lisa Reihana
Uiuinga #1: a conversation with Robert Jahnke
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 76: Auckland Art Fair
We’re not too big to care. 6 April - 15 June 2019, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland. Curated by Lisa Beauchamp
CIRCUT Cast Episode 75: An interview with Peter Wareing
Speaking for themselves: the legacy of Barry Barclay and Merata Mita
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 74: An interview with Luke Fowler
Periodising Site Specific Practice - an essay by Stephanie Beth
E-book: The Time of the Now
Summer Reading Series#5: Bridget Reweti's Ziarah (2018)
Summer Reading Series #4: Ronan Lee’s Big Night Down the Drain (Rain for Jacquie) (2018)
Summer Reading Series 2018 #3: Solidarity Through Distance: Radical Imagination in the work of Ahilapalapa Rands
Summer Reading Series 2018 #2: Gray Nicol's Voodoo Dog
2018
Summer Reading Series 2018 #1: Oscar Enberg's Red Beryl
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 73: Complicated Love - 2018 in review
Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
"A contemporary art space is..." A conversation with Bochun Hsiao, Frankie Su and Sophie Davis
Christopher Ulutupu, The Romantic Picturesque: The Postcard Trilogy, 1-25 November, The Physics Room, Christchurch
Fiona Amundsen, A Body that Lives, 28 September - 26 October 2018, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland
Walking the Shore - From the Shore, Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, 1 Sept - 4 Nov 2018. Curated by Ioana Gordon-Smith
Worth your while: A conversation with Elisabeth Pointon, Dilohana Lekamge and Laura Duffy
Paul Johns, Look At the Crowd in Swimming (Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch, August 2018)
Artists in Conversation #6 - Vea Mafile'o & Jeremy Leatinu'u
Symposium 2018: The Time of the Now
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 72: An interview with Johan Grimonprez
Artists in Conversation #5 - Stella Brennan & Sean Cubitt
Artists in Conversation #4 - Sonya Lacey & Gavin Hipkins
Call for Papers & Proposals: CIRCUIT Symposium 2018
fine moon, poor tuning - MEANWHILE, Wellington 4–21 July 2018
Spong’s Polyphony - Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish, Govett Brewster Art Gallery 12 May–22 July 2018
Interview: Jodie Mack & Fern Silva
This is Old Zeeland: CIRCUIT in Europe 2018
Artists In Conversation #3 - Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn
Floors and time and shapes - Campbell Patterson: toot floor, 17 February - 14 April 2018, Hocken Collections, Dunedin
Luke Willis Thompson, Adam Art Gallery. 21 February–14 April, 2018
CIRCUIT Cast: Artists In Conversation #2 - Sorawit Songsataya and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy
CIRCUIT Cast: Artists In Conversation #1 - Phil Dadson and Sean Kerr
The 24 hours plan: 3 commissions for Masons Screen
A potentially eternal cycle: James Oram's Wallpaper
Looking for life in a sea of loss: on Jasmine Te Hira’s Lost Content (2013) and The Beauty of Invisible Grief (2016)
Ana Iti - Before the displays
2017
Into the abject: looking at Laura Duffy
E-book: The Thickness of Cinema
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 71: 2017 End of Year wrap-up
Curators Essay: PULSE/REPEAT
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 69: Alexandre Larose
Movement on the Margins: BFI London Film Festival – Experimenta 2017
Luke Willis Thompson, autoportrait. Chisenhale Gallery, London. 23 June-27 August 2017
Learning from Athens
Nova Paul's Surplus Reality: Self-Healing, art and hegemonic discourses. The Physics Room. 6th May -11th June 2017
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 68: Tautai Pacific Arts / Christina Jeffery interview
Curators Essay: Party Political Broadcast
Curators Essay: Being Space, Masons Screen, Wellington 22 June - 14 September 2017
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 67: An interview with Mercedes Vicente
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 66: An interview with Sam Hamilton
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 65: An interview with Fiona Amundsen
CIRCUIT Symposium 2017: The Thickness of Cinema
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 64: Acting Out
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 63: Trudy Lane's Sunroom
Call for Papers & Presentations: CIRCUIT Symposium 2017: The Thickness of Cinema
Monet’s Replicant (Petra Cortright, City Gallery Wellington 8 April – 13 August 2017)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 62: Michael Nicholson
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 61: Mairi Gunn
Tim Wagg: False Paths, (The Engine Room, 8 March — 17 March, 2017)
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 60: Cushla Donaldson's The Fairy Falls
Murray Hewitt - The Rising Gale, Common Ground Hutt Public Art Festival 25 Feb - 4 March 2017
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 59: Jem Noble's Dream Dialects
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 58: Māoriland Film Festival - interview with Tainui Stephens
Sonya Lacey: Smooth but coarser than yellow (Robert Heald Gallery 16/2/17 – 11/3/17)
Summer Reading Series #3: Brit Bunkley's Ghost Shelters
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 57: Trust Us Contemporary Art Trust
Summer Reading Series #2: Lucy Aukafolau's Invisible Territories
Summer Reading Series #1: Pre-histories of Artist Moving Image - PALeo Neo Video
gesturing ‘whatever’; Potentially Yours, The Coming Community
Pool Party, MEANWHILE, Wellington (30 November– 16 December 2016)
2016
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 56: 2016 wrap-up
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 55: Mike Heynes and Masons Screen
The Bends
Gavin Hipkins: Wives Are Scarce
America x 10
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 54: John Ward Knox
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 53: MEANWHILE Gallery
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 52: Josette Chiang - Coastline Paradox
Ira Cohen: The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (City Gallery Wellington, 23 July – 16 October 2016)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 51: Joyce Campbell
The Rooms in the House
The New Sincerity in Aotearoa’s Landscape Mythology: comments on Bridget Reweti and Terri Te Tau’s installation Ōtākaro, at the Physics Room 2016
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 50: George Clark on Phantom Topologies
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 49: John Vea
CIRCUIT Symposium 2016: Phantom Topologies
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 48: Inhabiting Space
Filling in the Gaps: Cushla Donaldson’s Public Dream: Liquidation
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 47: The Non-Living Agent
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 46: Janet Lilo
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 45: The Hoover Diaries
Call for Papers: CIRCUIT Symposium 2016 - Phantom Topologies
THE HIVE HUMS WITH MANY MINDS - Part Two, 30 April - 29 May 2016, Te Tuhi Offsite, Auckland
Nathan Pohio, In a Dream of 200,000,000 Horses, 13 May - 4 June 2016, Jonathan Smart Gallery
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 44: Sonya Lacey's Infinitesimals
The Hive Hums With Many Minds
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 43: Auckland Art Fair
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 42: An interview with Clinton Watkins
Bullet Time (City Gallery Wellington 25 March – 10 July 2016)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 41: An interview with Yuki Kihara
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 40: River of Fundament
The Kalampag Tracking Agency
Summer Reading Series #4: Henry Davidson on Juliet Carpenter's Ingénue
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 39: Angela Tiatia survey at Māngere Arts Centre
10 works from NZ female artists you might have missed
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 38: Camille Henrot and high-tech primitivism
Summer Reading Series #3: On Mike Heynes: video art, animation, and activist critique
Summer Reading Series #2 Seeing Eye to Eye
Summer Reading Series #1: Inside, looking out: Photographs by Joanna Margaret Paul
Unseen City (City Gallery Wellington 21 November 2015 - 13 March 2016)
Jae Hoon Lee - Stranger in Strange Land (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 29th Aug 2015 - 21st Feb 2016
2015
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 37: Best of 2015
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 36: Sutthirat Supaparinya
Notes on Aro Video and artists moving image
Through a Different Lens/Film Work by Joanna Margaret Paul
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 35: Writing Women's Experimental Film Histories
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 34: Blue Oyster Gallery
The Abode of Indifference
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 33: Digital timelines - an interview with Jae Hoon Lee
The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure (4 Sept -10 Oct 2015) Artspace, Auckland
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 32: Demented Architecture
The Specious Present, Adam Art Gallery 11 July–20 September 2015
The things we talked about (ST PAUL St Gallery, 12 June – 17 July 2015)
A Geneaology of Moving Image Practice: CIRCUIT 2015 festival & symposium in pictures
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 31: Christina Read on The Brain
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 30: Nova Paul (symposium preview #3)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 29: Dirk De Bruyn (symposium preview #2)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 28: Shannon Te Ao (symposium preview #1)
A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice: CIRCUIT Symposium & Festival
Excess Baggage
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 27: Janine Randerson and Place Unmaking
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 26: Looking back to Zion - an interview with Bridget Reweti
Living Cities
Peter Roehr: Film Montages (City Gallery Wellington 16 March – 27 June 2015)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 25: How much do we need to read? How much does the text infect the work?
Call for presentations: CIRCUIT Symposium - A genealogy of moving image practice
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 24: "Smaller budgets, bigger ideas" - an interview with Jeff Henderson
Lonnie Hutchinson's Fish Eyes
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 23: An interview with Lisa Reihana
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 22: An interview with Billy Apple
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 21: Invisible Energy
All the things I did - an interview with Richard Maloy
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 20: The Performance Arcade, Denise Batchelor and Erika Sklenars
CIRCUIT Artists at the 2015 Rotterdam Film Festival - report by Mercedes Vicente
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 19: “Paintings to click by” - The Drowned World
Recycled Cinema - an interview with Roger Beebe
Summer Reading Series #7: Rising, Falling, Rising - Phil Dadson’s Breath of Wind by Mark Amery
Summer Reading Series #6: Campbell Patterson's Chip Mountain (2009) by Georgina Watson
Summer Reading Series #5: The Endless Column By Megan Dunn
Summer Reading Series #4: Watching Sean Grattan’s HADHAD by Martin Patrick
Summer Reading Series #3: Martin Rumsby on Ken Jacobs' The Guests (2013)
Summer Reading Series #2: The miracle that is my body - Victoria Wynne-Jones on Megan Dunn
Summer Reading Series #1: The Aachen Faxes - a conversation between Marie Shannon and Alex Davidson
2014
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 18: Are you cuddling a Care Bear?
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 17: Tahi Moore and Light Show
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 16: an interview with Adnan Yildiz
The Lightness of Being: Mark Amery on John Ward Knox (Robert Heald Gallery 24 September-25 October 2014)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 15: William Kentridge, Simon Denny, Gloria Knight
Locating the Practice: recapping the 2014 CIRCUIT symposium in pictures
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 14: Gavin Hipkins, Kim Paton, SPARK Festival
Phil Dadson: Parallel Harmonies (Trish Clark Gallery Auckland 27 June – 25 July 2014) review by Lance Pearce
Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tongan Contemporary, Pataka, Porirua, 12 April–24 August 2014
Campbell Patterson, Watching (18-28 June 2014 Fuzzyvibes Gallery, Auckand)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 13: Symposium interviews: George Clark (Tate Modern), Simon Rees (Govett-Brewster)
CIRCUIT symposium: Locating the Practice: Exhibiting Artists' Moving Image 15-16 August Auckland
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 12: Kim Pieters, Terri Te Tau, Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary
Biennale Two Ways
A response to Teatro Amazonas at the Regent Theatre, Dunedin 13 April 2014 by David Eggleton
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 11: Stuggorings and Fijetterings, MOAMOA, Art and Social Change
Viviane Sassen: Lexicon (City Gallery Wellington 22 March - 15 June 2014)
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 10: Simon Starling, Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, Samin Son
Materialistic cinema: a screening by Solomon Nagler (Robert Heald Gallery 20 March 2014)
Dark Light - a response by Stephen Zepke
The network was desperate for new hits (Dog Park, 21 Jan – 23 Feb 2014)
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 9: Sydney Biennale controversy, Cinema and Painting, Ken Jacobs
Julian Dashper: Nothing is going to happen
Peter Wareing: the Limits of Intelligibility
Seagulls Kipling: Megan Dunn interviews Yvonne Todd
There is Time for Waking Slowly - Kim Pieters’ The Golden Fields
On the system of atmospheric form: two films by Andrew de Freitas
2013
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 8: Best of 2013
A Slow Burn Zone – Lingering impressions of the final Parlour show
Three biennales, three moving image works
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 7: Sound Full, MINA, Body Rock
AUTONOIR - Tahi Moore, Artspace, Auckland, September 13 – October 5, 2013
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 6: Francis Alys, Phil Dadson & CIRCUIT symposium
Hit Me with Your Best Shot - installation by Janet Lilo, responses by Louisa Afoa and Lana Lopesi
Symposium Interview #2: Martin Rumsby
Symposium Interview #1: Dr May Adadol Ingawanij
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 5: Auckland Art Fair
CIRCUIT announces upcoming symposium - Looking Back into the Future
The Quarry - a film by Gavin Hipkins, review by Ryan Reynolds
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 4: Pulp Fan Fiction, Online Sales and Beautiful Creatures
Nova Paul: Form Next to Form Next to Form, review by Tessa Laird
Alex Monteith: Big Wave Aotearoa, 13 April–28 July 2013, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 3: Auckland Triennial, Video and Performance
Someone Else, curated by Leonhard Emmerling, Dunedin Public Art Gallery 16th Mar - 16th Jun 2013
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 2: On Criticism, The Destroyed World, Asia Pacific Triennial
My Dinner with Henry or; Notes on distributing artist film and video
The Caretaker - Marie Shannon, 'Aachen, Germany 1995' at Hamish McKay, Wellington, 11 Dec 2012 – 26 Jan 2013
CIRCUIT CAST Episode 1: Moving on Asia, Len Lye: Kaleidoscope, The Physics Room after the quake
Steve Carr, X, Michael Lett, 31 January – 2 March 2013
True Stories / Scripted Realities, Dunedin Public Art Gallery 24/11/12 - 3/3/13
Remade - New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington 23/11/12 - 2/2/13
2012
The secrets of their own hearts, Murray Hewitt, City Gallery 20 Oct - 9 Dec 2012
9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivation - Highlights in Video
The Fourth Wall, an installation by Clemens von Wedemeyer, Dunedin Public Art Gallery April 16 - Oct 28 2012
Len Lye: The Opera, Maidment Theatre, Auckland, Sept 5-8 2012
Let’s Get Physical: looking at the work of Rebecca Ann Hobbs
Et Al - Films from non-existent in the everyday world? Jonathan Smart Gallery Aug 18-Sep 5 2012
The Artists were present: NZ Film Festival round-up 2012
MONDO FEASTO: Films by Brent Hayward at the Audio Foundation
Te Hiko Hou, New Zealand Film Archive mediagallery, Wellington 29 June - 11 Aug 2012
Steve Carr – Performance / Camera
Vincent Ward, Inhale, Gus Fisher Gallery, 6 July – 25 August 2012
"Train, train and then maybe riot” - an interview with Samin Son
Meet the curators: Children and the avant-garde image
Candice Stock: Running in the Starlight
Jill Kennedy: Eyes on the Moon
The slap and tickle of Phil Dadson’s Bodytok Quintet
NEW MEDIA WORLD OLD MEDIA WORLD aka VIRAL INTERNET #1 with YVES
7 responses: St Paul St curatorial symposium
Video Interview - Murray Hewitt
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival 6: Raiding the Archives
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