The artists hand with a rubber glove on, holds a sculpture of a hand also wearing a rubber glove. They hold the sculpture by a stick are raking sand with it.

Still from Screen Used (2015) Eddie Clemens

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The Past Sure Is Tense

A programme of video work that explores how digital technologies have shaped our sense of self.

The rapid turnover of broadcast and digital media tells us that the lifespan of the contemporary moment is increasingly shorter. Does constant change make it possible to absorb the present? Does the drive towards the new create a sustained act of forgetting? Along a forgotten highway of Hollywood movies, media manipulation and obsolescent technologies did we miss the future?

Presented by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, The Past Sure Is Tense presents recent video work exploring how digital technologies have shaped our individual and collective sense of self, our possible futures.

Artists

  • Stephen McGregor

  • Erika Sklenars

  • Dirk de Bruyn

  • Eddie Clemens

  • Jasmine Te Hira

  • Richard von Sturmer

  • Tim Wagg

  • Peter Wareing

  • Terri Te Tau

Screening details

Screenings

3pm, 10 August, SPARK, Hamilton

    He ringatoi anōRelated artists

    A messy scene of collaged paper and tape, a glove covered in paint and glue

    Eddie Clemens

    Eddie Clemens
    Erica holds up a bright orange popsicle in front of a plain wall. They wear a white singlet and a deadpan facial expression

    Erica Sklenars

    Erica Sklenars
    A heavy thick bracelet made of ice is worn on someones arm as they gently clasp and unclasp a fist

    Jasmine Te Hira

    Jasmine Te Hira
    A view from inside a car looking outwards through the windscreen to see a tree and power-pole

    Terri Te Tau

    Terri Te Tau
    Water cascades down concrete steps as if there is a flood or leak, a mailbox with the number 11 on it stands up straight near the waterfall steps

    Richard von Sturmer

    Richard von Sturmer
    A view of green shoes with bright orange laces about to board an escalator

    Tim Wagg

    Tim Wagg
    A piece of glass sits in dark puddle on tar-sealed concrete

    Peter Wareing

    Peter Wareing

    CIRCUIT is the
    leading voice
    for artist moving image
    practice
    in Aotearoa New Zealand,
    distributing works,
    critical review and
    dialogues
    which reflect our unique, contemporary
    South Pacific context.

    Ko CIRCUIT te māngai
    mō ngā mahi toi kiriata
    o Aotearoa, e tuku
    atu ana i ngā mahi toi,
    i ngā arotakenga
    me ngā whakawhitinga
    kōrero e kitea ai
    ngā āhuatanga
    motuhake o tō tātou noho i te ao hou ki
    Te Moananui-a-Kiwa.