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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 68: Tautai Pacific Arts / Christina Jeffery interview

Posted Oct 4, 2017
By Mark Amery

What are the challenges and opportunities facing Pacific artists in New Zealand today? Christina Jeffery, Director of the Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, speaks to host Mark Amery about the successes of the Pacific art community and support needed for it’s growth and development.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 67: An interview with Mercedes Vicente

Posted Aug 17, 2017
By Mark Amery

On the phone from London, Mercedes Vicente discusses the curatorial process behind Thick Cinema, CIRCUIT's 2017 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions with new work by Fiona Amundsen, John Di Stefano, Sam Hamilton, Kim Pieter

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 66: An interview with Sam Hamilton

Posted Aug 16, 2017
By Mark Amery

In a CIRCUIT first, this pod takes place from the set of Sam Hamilton's new film. Phoning in from Portland Oregon, Sam talks to host Mark Amery about the newly commissioned work, screening at Christhchurch Art Gallery 6.30pm Friday 25 August ahead of this years CIRCUIT Symposium.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 65: An interview with Fiona Amundsen

Posted Aug 10, 2017
By Mark Amery

Fiona Amundsen talks to Mark Amery about the forthcoming premiere of her CIRCUIT Artist Cinema commission A body that lives which examines the 1944 breakout of 1,000 Japanese prisoners from a prison camp in Cowra, Australia.

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 64: Acting Out

Posted Jul 7, 2017
By Mark Amery

In this pod Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and host Mark Amery discuss Acting Out, an Adam Art Gallery survey of New Zealand and international artists “who express the raw physicality of sex with varying degrees of candour.”

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CIRCUIT CAST Episode 63: Trudy Lane's Sunroom

Posted Jun 28, 2017
By Mark Amery

Inspired by the simple realisation that all energy for life on Earth comes from the Sun, Trudy Lane’s Sunroom is an installation that stretches to encompass astrophysics, energy, ecology, and cosmologies.

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CIRCUIT CAST Episode 62: Michael Nicholson

Posted May 29, 2017
By Mark Amery

"One thing has led to another..." On the release of a career spanning book, 101 year old artist Michael Nicholson talks to Mark Amery about art, the power of the absurd, witchcraft, mystic philosophy and "the power to live life gracefully".

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 61: Mairi Gunn

Posted May 16, 2017
By Mark Amery

How do we fill in the blanks of our own histories?

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CIRCUIT Cast Episode 60: Cushla Donaldson's The Fairy Falls

Posted Apr 20, 2017
By Mark Amery

“Is it possible for the Romantic to exceed the rational without eliminating it?” Cushla Donaldson talks Mark Amery through the exhibition The Fairy Falls at Te Uru Waitakere, featuring the premiere of a new film work documenting the mythical 1973 performance by Black Sabbath at The Great Ngaruawa

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CIRCUIT CAST Episode 59: Jem Noble's Dream Dialects

Posted Apr 4, 2017
By Mark Amery

"How does entanglement in the technical circuits of ‘progress’ shape not just dreams, but the capacity to dream?" In this pod guests Judy Darragh and Scott Hamilton join Mark Amery to discuss Dream Dialects, an exhibition by British artist Jem Noble recently installed at Te Tuhi, Aucklan

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