Podcast Archive: 2018

CIRCUIT Cast Episode 73: Complicated Love - 2018 in review

Posted: Dec 18, 2018
By
Mark Williams

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 Williams

“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 Williams

“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 Williams

“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
Mark Williams

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

In this pod host Thomasin Sleigh welcomes Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn for an extended discussion about Marie's survey at the Adam Art Gallery Rooms Found Only In The Home, Megan's new book Tinderbox, navigating the decisive moment, the plight of the submerging artist, and being subversive... but in a mild way.

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CIRCUIT Cast: Artists In Conversation #2 - Sorawit Songsataya and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy

Posted: Mar 26, 2018
By
Mark Amery

“I would like to see thinking understood as a materiality.” - Bridget Riggir-Cuddy

On the occasion of the exhibition Starling recently installed at Artspace, artist Sorawit Songsataya and Artspace Assistant Curator Bridget Riggir-Cuddy sit down to unpack their six-year collaborative relationship, the ethics of making, and post-humanist theory. With podcast host Mark Amery.

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CIRCUIT Cast: Artists In Conversation #1 - Phil Dadson and Sean Kerr

Posted: Mar 13, 2018
By
Mark Williams

It doesn't matter if you're in a bloody gallery or not as long as you're making stuff" - Phil Dadson.

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