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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 87: an interview with M D Brown

Posted Aug 6, 2020
By Mark Williams

In this interview film-maker M D Brown discusses three short films he made between 2000-2004, inspired by the stream of consciousness technique of modernist European writers including James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.

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Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image - Episode 1: ZK Steiner-Fox

Posted Jul 29, 2020
By Robbie Handcock

Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image is a new four-part podcast series hosted by Pōneke artist Robbie Handcock, interviewing a range of Aotearoa artists working in moving image who employ queerness as identity, content and strategy.

In Episode One, we speak to Berlin-based Tāmaki Makaurau artist ZK Steiner-Fox. Leading from their work Popular Glory, we discuss how the horror movie format—with all its tensions as well as its tropes—is used in ZK’s work to examine the impact of queer coding, classic Hollywood morality and the everyday terror of navigating contemporary media.

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CIRCUIT Cast 88: Revisiting HADHAD - a conversation with Sean Grattan and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió

Posted Jul 28, 2020
By CIRCUIT Staff

Recently we invited film maker Sean Grattan and academic Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió to revisit Sean's 2012 film HADHAD, whose depiction of an unwelcome visitor now seems oddly prescient of a world dealing with Covid 19 and authoritarian politics.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 86: Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon

Posted Jun 30, 2020
By Moya Lawson

In this pod Moya Lawson speaks with Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon; two artists currently exhibiting public artworks in Wellington which celebrate Matariki, a star cluster used traditionally for ancestral navigation, timing the seasons and a marker of the Māori n

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 85: Never Waste A Crisis - a conversation with Judy Darragh, Ary Jansen, Lisa Reihana

Posted Apr 29, 2020
By Mark Williams

In moments of change there is a window to act. How do we organise our politics around the new situation? How do we organise our institutions? What role should artists play in this? How do we move beyond short term solutions to long term ones?

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CIRCUIT Cast 84: an interview with Darcell Apelu

Posted Apr 20, 2020
By Mark Williams

Is time out the most productive time of all?

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 83: an Interview With John Walter

Posted Mar 17, 2020
By Mark Williams

"HIV doesn’t have agency, it’s not alive like we are, it’s just a piece of programming, but... in empathising with it, I have gained a greater respect for it" - John Walter

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 82: 2019 in review

Posted Dec 19, 2019
By Mark Williams

In this CIRCUIT Cast 2019 review we welcome Judy Darragh (artist), Remco de Blaaij (Director, Artspace Aotearoa), Becky Hemus (Writer) and Lucinda Bennett (writer).

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 81: an interview with Tanu Gago

Posted Dec 10, 2019
By Mark Amery

Savage in the Garden is a new work by Tanu Gago, currently showing at Artspace Aotearoa as part of Personal Space

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 80: an interview with Chevron Hassett

Posted Sep 25, 2019
By Mark Amery

On the phone from Sydney, Chevron Hassett talks to Mark Amery about Mauri Tū, The First Breath of Light (2019) showing as part of Home Movies, this Saturday 28 September 10am-4pm in Wellington.

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