Projects
Our Projects page lists installations/works produced by CIRCUIT for gallery and/or screening contexts. 'Current' indicates programmes from the previous 12 months. The 'Past' section includes CIRCUIT projects which are no longer in active distribution, but may be available on request.
CIRCUIT is available for commissioning of new installation and/or screening programmes. For enquiries about CIRCUIT programming or distribution of individual works, write to Mark Williams, director(at)circuit.org.nz.
Symposium
Call for Papers: CIRCUIT Symposium 2019: From Me To You
August 7, 2019 to August 21, 2019
The history of artists moving image is one of first-person voices. From Jonas Mekas to Sadie Benning, from...
Call for Proposals
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Home Movies
August 14, 2019 to September 2, 2019
CIRCUIT is seeking to commission 3 student or recent graduate artists (within 3 years of completing study) to...
Essay Series
Uiuinga - conversations with four Māori Artists
May 21, 2019
Commissioned by CIRCUIT and Toi Māori Aotearoa - Māori Arts New Zealand, this four-part conversation series pr...
Essay Series
Adaption and adoption; absorption, refraction and duration i...
June 25, 2019 to September 25, 2019
There’s a plasticity to the arts that makes mediums entirely fluid. Surely then it’s no surprise to recognise...
Installation
Mason's Screen
February 2, 2016 to February 1, 2020
Mason’s Screen is a 24 hour public screen for artists video. Supported by Wellington City Council and programm...
Curator-at-large
CIRCUIT Curator-at-large 2019: Serena Bentley
April 3, 2019 to December 31, 2019
Serena Bentley is CIRCUIT's 2019 curator-at-large. She will curate our annual programme of Artist Cinema Commi...
E-book
E-book: The Time of the Now
March 4, 2019
CIRCUIT is proud to present The Time of the Now e-book. 118 pages of interviews, presentations and discussion...
Screening
Truth or Consequences
August 21, 2018
How can artists respond to a ‘post-truth era’ of humanitarian and ecological crisis?
Truth or Consequences is...
Screening
CIRCUIT at International Film Festival Oberhausen
May 2, 2019
CIRCUIT is very pleased to once again to be showing a selection of recent work from Aotearoa as part of the Ma...
E-Book
E-book: The Thickness of Cinema
December 11, 2017
CIRCUIT is very proud to announce The Thickness of Cinema E-book. 100 pages of interviews and discussions from...
Symposium
CIRCUIT Symposium 2018: The Time of the Now
August 21, 2018
Presented by CIRCUIT in association with the Documentary Research Group at Auckland University of Technolog...
Screening
This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema
May 10, 2017
How does Art History and Practice translate across geography and time?
This is not film-making. Artists work f...
Screening
Thick Cinema
October 28, 2018
What is the role of the body and sensorial experience in cinematic intelligibility and meaning? Curated by Mer...
Screening
Mappings: Landscape, Memory, Histories
September 29, 2018
Presented in partnership with CIRCUIT, Aperture Asia & Pacific Film Festival presents Mappings: Landscape,...
Installation
St Bathans repetitions 1/2/16 - 21/3/16 (portraits de Jacque...
August 22, 2017 to August 26, 2017
The former gold mining town of St Bathans lies deep in the heart of the Maniototo in New Zealand's Otago regio...
Installation or Screening
Through a Different Lens/Film Work by Joanna Margaret Paul
August 10, 2017
Through a Different Lens/Film Work by Joanna Margaret Paulcurated by Peter Todd68 minutes, Digital Video, Sile...
Screening
Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
October 30, 2016
Six Artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul is a programme of short moving image works by Nova P...
Screening
I BECOME INSTRUMENT
September 15, 2018
Announcing I BECOME INSTRUMENT - the inaugural Aotearoa festival of artists sound and image - presented by CIR...
Installation
worth your while
October 11, 2018 to November 7, 2018
Worth your while is an installation of two works by Elisabeth Pointon and Dilohana Lekamge which make room to...
Installation
I want to be where I am
September 8, 2016 to September 17, 2016
The Engine Room - Massey University
Wellington
Sep 8, 2016 to Sep 30, 2016
6:00PM
I want to be whe...
Installation
Julian Dashper: Video Works
September 9, 2016
This one day exhibition celebrates the video work of New Zealand conceptual artist Julian Dashper (1960 – 2009...
Screening
Joanna Margaret Paul: I am an open window
October 18, 2015
Taking the form of a conversation between past and present, Joanna Margaret Paul: I am an open window presents...
Installation
Arwa Alneami: Never Never Land
September 12, 2018 to September 15, 2018
Arwa Alneami is a key figure in Saudi Arabian art, exhibiting in and increasingly beyond the Kingdom. Her very...
Installation
Jim Allen's News
March 1, 2016
Jim Allen’s News is a collaboration between Jim Allen and Mark Harvey.
The installation presents video documen...
Exhibition
Party Political Broadcast
September 19, 2017 to September 23, 2017
“The following is a party political broadcast on behalf of…”
Presented by CIRCUIT and The Physics Room, Party...
Symposium
CIRCUIT Symposium 2016: Phantom Topologies
September 10, 2016
CIRCUIT is proud to announce Phantom Topologies, a symposium presented by CIRCUIT in association with City Gal...
Symposium
Locating the Practice: Exhibiting Artists’ Moving Image
August 15, 2014 to August 16, 2014
Where is artists’ moving image practice best sited? How can we define and exhibit this diverse and ever evolvi...
Symposium
A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice
August 9, 2015 to August 15, 2015
Given the interdisciplinary strands of influence that inform contemporary moving image practice, what lineages...
Symposium
Looking Back into the Future – a symposium on artist moving...
August 29, 2013 to August 31, 2013
With over 40 years of artist moving image production in New Zealand, what is the current state of local practi...
Residency
CIRCUIT 2016 International Artist in Residence
February 16, 2016 to October 1, 2016
CIRCUIT is proud to announce it's inaugural 2016 international artist in residence Alexandre Larose (CAN).
Fol...
Professional Development
CIRCUIT Critical Forum
February 1, 2017 to December 1, 2017
The CIRCUIT Critical Forum is a monthly discussion group for artists who work with the moving image to talk ab...
Exhibition
PULSE/REPEAT
November 30, 2017 to December 20, 2017
“I have constantly stressed the pulsative function as it were of the subconscious”- Jacques Lacan
The Pulse is...
Installation
Being Space
June 22, 2017 to September 14, 2017
An installation curated by CIRCUIT Curatorial Intern Priscilla Howe. Featuring work by Robyn Jordaan, Melissa...
Installation
temple sea feng shui
September 8, 2016 to September 9, 2016
Shot in the seaside town of Sai Kung (Hong Kong) temple sea feng shui (2016) is an instllation by Josette Chia...
Installation
Who spends the time? Some practical questions concerning the...
August 22, 2017 to August 25, 2017
"If I was a Tory how would you win me over?”
In this speculative urban documentary Peter Wareing juxtaposes f...
Screening
The Past Sure Is Tense
August 10, 2015
The rapid turnover of broadcast and digital media tells us that the lifespan of the contemporary moment is inc...
Screening
Apple Pie
May 9, 2017
UK premiere of Sam Hamilton's Apple Pie screening at CLOSE-UP, London.
“If you wish to make apple pie from scr...
Exhibition
Coastline Paradox
October 21, 2016 to November 12, 2016
Coastline Paradox is a multimedia installation by Hong Kong/UK artist
Josette Chiang at Toi Poneke Arts Centr...
Installation
News of the Uruguay Round
May 25, 2016 to May 29, 2016
Presented by CIRCUIT at the Auckland Art Fair, Mike Heynes’ multi-channel video installation News of the Urugu...
Curatorial Internship
CIRCUIT Curatorial Intern 2017
May 23, 2017 to December 20, 2017
Priscilla Howe recently completed her Bachelor of Visual Communication Design(Hons) at Massey University where...
Residency
CIRCUIT 2016 Curator-at-large
March 11, 2016 to October 1, 2016
George Clark is an artist, curator and writer based between London and Hong Kong. He is CIRCUIT's 2016 Curator...
Screening
Merv Espina presents: Turumba & the Green Papaya Kitchen
September 7, 2016
Please note: The venue for this event has changed from Thistle Hall to The Pyramid Club.
For one night only...
Screening
Goodnight Kiwi or; Tonights broadcast has now ended, regular...
December 20, 2014 to January 5, 2015
Before the advent of 24 hour broadcasting in 1994 the evening closedown of New Zealand state television was si...
Screening
The First Universe
August 30, 2013 to August 30, 2015
“A house constitutes a body of images that gives mankind proofs or illusions of stability.” Gaston Bachelard
H...
Performance
Material Damage: Expanded Cinema by Dirk de Bruyn with Duckl...
August 14, 2015
CIRCUIT presents a live expanded cinema performance by Melbourne experimental film-maker Dirk de Bruyn, with s...
Installation
The Brain
August 14, 2015 to November 15, 2015
Curated by artist Christina Read and commissioned by CIRCUIT, The Brain is an idiosyncratic spatial and concep...
Installation
Leisure Week 2017
April 1, 2017 to April 7, 2017
Featuring works by Clinton Watkins, Christina Read and Layne Waerea Leisure Week infuses the NZ sublime with l...
Installation
brouillard - Sackville Marshwalk
August 11, 2015 to August 29, 2015
An installation by Alexandre Larose, presented by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand and The A...
Workshop
Workshop: Developing 8mm/16mm film by hand
August 9, 2015
NOTE: This workshop is now full and registrations have closed. To register for the CIRCUIT symposium online pl...
Screening
OgoGago (comes and goes)
October 10, 2015
Curated by artist Seung Yul Oh, OgoGago (English translation; 'comes and goes') features up to 10 short works...
Installation
Everyday Things
October 16, 2015 to February 1, 2016
A short programme of video works present interventions into everyday activities and materials. Featuring work...
Screening
Six videos for TEZA
November 26, 2013 to December 1, 2013
6 videos programmed in response to 6 daily provocations by the festival TEZA (Transitional Economic Zone of Ao...
Screening
Place Unmaking
July 21, 2015
Contemporary New Zealand film and video artists are often called on to engage in ‘place-making’ in public art...
Screening
The Artists Cinema (2011-14)
August 10, 2011 to August 14, 2014
An annual programme (2011-14) of short single channel works designed "to consciously respond to, comment on, i...
Installation
To & Fro
February 8, 2016 to July 17, 2016
From real estate opportunities on Mars to someone dancing their way across a bridge in south Auckland, these w...
Symposium
Looking Back into the Future
August 29, 2013 to August 31, 2013
Reflecting on current local and international perspectives, how can institutions better support new models of...
Installation
Suspended Agency - an installation by Peter Wareing
April 6, 2019 to July 21, 2019
Curated by CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams and presented by the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Suspended Agency i...
Screening
Renewal
June 6, 2019
On 6 June CIRCUIT will renew it's partnership with the Aperture Asia Pacific Film Festival in London to presen...
Installation
WUNDERSCHEIN - an installation by Guillaume Cailleau
May 10, 2019 to May 25, 2019
When and how does a piece of paper or an artwork acquire an exchange value? How is its' value determined and p...
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