Commentary in category: Interview

The Vision of Participatory Parity: a conversation between Cushla Donaldson and David Hall

Posted Oct 9, 2019

"Where did we get to, David, in terms of Australia and New Zealand relations?" - Cushla Donaldson

501s is a work by Cushla Donaldson which invited prisoners detained under the Australian Immigration Act of 2014 to participate in the live streaming component of an installation at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2018. The project highlighted the plight of approximately 1300 New Zealand citizens held without criminal charges by the Australian government on suspicion of 'criminal conduct'. 501s is now showing in The Shouting Valley: Interrogating the Borders Between Us a group exhibition at Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery until 14 December.

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

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

Posted Oct 24, 2018

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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Interview: Jodie Mack & Fern Silva

Posted Jun 13, 2018
By Mark Williams

"...the filmmaker being present to engage with the audience is one of the most special aspects of experimental film" - Jodie Mack. Ahead of their upcoming screenings in Wellington / New Plymouth, Jodie Mack (USA/UK) and Fern Silva (USA/Portugal) give an insight into their working processes.

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Summer Reading Series #1: Pre-histories of Artist Moving Image - PALeo Neo Video

Posted Jan 26, 2017
By Mark Williams

An interview with curator Lawrence McDonald about PALeo Neo Video - Chapters from the history of video art in New Zealand 1970-1990s, an ambitious and largely undocumented survey of artist moving image practice that was staged in 1999.

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Gavin Hipkins: Wives Are Scarce

Posted Nov 29, 2016
By Robert Leonard

Robert Leonard talks to Gavin Hipkins about his latest film, New World (2016). It was made for CIRCUIT’s screening programme This Is not film-making. Artists work for cinema, which premiered at City Gallery Wellington on 9 September 2016, and screens at Te Uru Waitakere on 6 December. The interview is based on a discussion held at the CIRCUIT symposium, Phantom Topologies, at City Gallery Wellington.

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The Kalampag Tracking Agency

Posted Mar 30, 2016
By Mark Williams

Artist and Curator Shireen Seno is currently touring New Zealand with a 30 year survey of Filipino avant-garde cinema entitled The Kalampag Tracking Agency. Shireen took the time to answer a few questions via email about compiling histories out of the rubble of dictatorship and typhoons.

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All the things I did - an interview with Richard Maloy

Posted Apr 8, 2015
By Mark Williams
 
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