CIRCUIT is excited to present a screening of six video works by New Zealand artists created in response to the work of Joanna Margaret Paul.
This screening is in association with Dunedin Public Art Gallery's exhibition Joanna Margaret Paul: Imagined in the Context of a Room (7 August–14 November 2021).
The screening will be introduced by CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams, who will briefly discuss CIRCUIT's work on the Joanna Paul archive and the subsequent interest in Paul's work from a younger generation of artists, writers and international venues.
About the screening
Six Artists respond to the work of Joanna Margaret Paul is a programme of short moving image works by Nova Paul, Rachel Shearer, Sonya Lacey, Miranda Parkes, Shannon Te Ao and the collective Popular Productions. The series of works was originally curated by Solomon Nagler and Mark Williams in 2016 and has since been screened in a variety of venues in Aotearoa and internationally.
A prolific filmmaker, poet, photographer and painter, the work of Joanna Paul (1955-2003) quietly observed the intimate poetics of the domestic and the modest grace of her bucolic surroundings. This programme presents an ambitious range of moving image commissions shot at home, in industrial space, nature and using a microscope within salt letter form—each film celebrating the resonance of Paul’s work and offering the catalyst for a collection of new work by a range of contemporary New Zealand artists.
Six Artists respond to the work of Joanna Margaret Paul was created with the support of Creative New Zealand.
