Commentary in category: Podcast

CIRCUIT Cast Episode 77: New strategies for Auckland Galleries

Posted Jun 14, 2019
By Mark Amery

A new roundtable podcast brings together three Auckland gallery directors; Gabriela Salgado (Te Tuhi), Lisa Beauchamp (Gus Fisher) and Charlotte Huddleston (St Paul St Gallery), to discuss recent strategies for sustainability and audience engagement. Drawing on perspectives both local and international, the panel discuss the role of University galleries within the institution, reaching out to public space, low wages for artists and hosting the odd wedding to pay the bills.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 76: Auckland Art Fair

Posted May 3, 2019
By Mark Amery

"Different Art Fairs have different roles" - Stephanie Post, co-director Auckland Art Fair

 
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CIRCUT Cast Episode 75: An interview with Peter Wareing

Posted Apr 17, 2019
By Mark Williams

Peter Wareing is a New Zealand artist who has spent most of the past 30 years working in the USA and now in the UK.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 74: An interview with Luke Fowler

Posted Mar 21, 2019
By Mark Williams

“The problem is with bureaucrats who are preventing us from seeing the content” - Luke Fowler

Recently in Wellington for the opening of the Adam Art Gallery installation Passages, Scottish film-maker Luke Fowler sat down with Mark Williams at City Gallery Wellington for a wide-ranging interview on his filmed portraits of experimental musicians, the revolutionary potential of the past, the responsibility of the spectator, the plight of millenials and bypassing gatekeepers.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 73: Complicated Love - 2018 in review

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

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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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 72: An interview with Johan Grimonprez

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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Artists in Conversation #5 - Stella Brennan & Sean Cubitt

Posted Aug 14, 2018
By Mark Amery

“There's something inevitably fascistic about a perfect world” - Stella Brennan.

UK academic Sean Cubitt joins Stella Brennan and host Mark Amery to discuss Stella's recent show at Trish Clark gallery Object Permanence, technological utopias and "responding to the ancestors that we’ve locked up."

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Artists in Conversation #4 - Sonya Lacey & Gavin Hipkins

Posted Jul 25, 2018
By Mark Amery

“If the essay film has become a trope…and these strategies that we’re using have become formulaic, how do we negotiate our way through that?” - Gavin Hipkins.

In the fourth of our conversation series Sonya Lacey and Gavin Hipkins discuss a shared interest in failed utopias, the moving image as a distribution mode of sculpture and working methodologies. Hosted by Mark Amery.

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Artists In Conversation #3 - Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn

Posted May 15, 2018
By Thomasin Sleigh

"Let's see if we can make other people admit to having these mundane desires and pleasures" - Marie Shannon

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