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2021
The threats and seductions of mass media
Max Fleury: Public Nuisance
CIRCUIT Cast 101: Tendai Mutambu, Serena Bentley, Lisa Berndt
CIRCUIT Cast 100: Yona Lee, Amy Howden-Chapman, Gavin Hipkins
Repost: CIRCUIT CAST Episode 22: An interview with Billy Apple
Text as material: 10 works inspired by poetry, word and song
Sonya Lacey: Noise as method
Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness & the Moving Image - Episode 4: Christopher Ulutupu
A conversation with Kauri Wharewera and Israel Randell
Three writers respond to Shannon Te Ao's 'what was or could be today (again)'—Dunedin Public Art Gallery (10 April–27 June 2021)
How would you feel about me writing something about ‘Toi Tū, Toi Ora' for CIRCUIT?
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 98: Stephanie Beth and Emma Fitts
CREATURE, Marianna Simnett – City Gallery Wellington (22 May–11 July 2021)
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 97: Steve Carr And Christian Lamont
Panel discussion: Expanded Territories, Expanded Practices
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 96: Not Today… Can you decolonise an art gallery?
happiness is only real when shared, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (13 February - 29 May 2021)
24 hours in Tāmaki Makaurau: an artist moving image round-up
CIRCUIT Cast Episode 95: Connor Fitzgerald and Xi Li
Imagine a waterfall: three commissions for Masons Screen 2020-21
A culture of light - Tyler Jackson’s LIGHT-HAUS, play_station, Wellington (27 Nov-12 Dec 2020)
Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness & the Moving Image - Episode 3: Daniel Sanders & Neihana Gordon-Stables
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
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 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 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 Genealogy 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)
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 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 CAST Episode 12: Kim Pieters, Terri Te Tau, Tonga ‘i Onopooni: Tonga Contemporary
Biennale Two Ways
Teatro Amazonas, Regent Theatre, Dunedin 13 April 2014
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 Symposium: Looking Back into the Future
The Quarry, The Physics Room, Christchurch 18 May — 16 Jun 2013
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, Christchurch 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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