Current Projects
Rematriation
Rematriation
A programme of six works by contemporary Māori artists, curated by CIRCUIT’s Kaitiaki Kiriata Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka.
Homing Instinct
Homing Instinct
Homing Instinct is a collaborative international programme of artist commissions examining the human necessity for housing, shelter, and belonging. With new works by Kahurangiariki Smith (Aotearoa), Ari Angkasa (Australia), and Ananta Thitanat (Thailand) alongside Dieneke Jansen’s This Housing Thing (2021).
Masons Screen
Masons Screen
Masons Screen is a public screen for video art in Wellington's CBD. CIRCUIT curates the screen in collaboration with the Wellington City Council.
Space-Body Entanglement: Thai artists' video
Space-Body Entanglement: Thai artists' video
A programme of recent Thai artists' video, selected and presented by visiting Bangkok-based curator Mary Pansanga, screening in Ōtautahi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and Tāmaki Makaurau this August & September.
Art/Action
Art/Action
A conversation with artists Dieneke Jansen and Heleyni Pratley on using art to investigate the mechanics of capital and as a tool for social justice.
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2024: Antonia van Sitter
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2024: Antonia van Sitter
Antonia van Sitter's new work Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata (2024) is CIRCUIT’S fifth annual Matariki commission for Masons Screen
Matariki Live on Screen
Matariki Live on Screen
A selection of works by CIRCUIT artists will screen on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, Aotea Square, as part of Auckland Council's Matariki celebrations.
CIRCUIT Cast: Hihi Aho
CIRCUIT Cast: Hihi Aho
A three-part podcast series of conversations unfolding from Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists, hosted by writer Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu).
Artist Talk: Wild Wild Life
Artist Talk: Wild Wild Life
Join artists Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White for a discussion about their commissions in Wild, Wild Life, a collection of seven new artist videos developed in response to the city of Auckland.
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life
Wild Wild Life is a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day. Featuring works by Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White.
Films by Maximilien Luc Proctor
Films by Maximilien Luc Proctor
A screening of 16mm film works by French-American avant-garde filmmaker, curator, and musician Maximilien Luc Proctor.
Y la Palabra Dividió y Explotó | And the Word Divided and Exploited
Y la Palabra Dividió y Explotó | And the Word Divided and Exploited
Works by Peter Wareing and Mike Heynes will screen in Mexico as part of a five-day moving image festival curated by Project Space Festival Juárez
CIRCUIT Cast: Sites of Connection
CIRCUIT Cast: Sites of Connection
A three-part podcast series of conversations with artists who work at the intersection of filmic language, poetry, and metaphor, hosted by Dani McIntosh.
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2023: Hiona Henare
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2023: Hiona Henare
Hiona Henare's work THEY AIN'T WOKE YET (2023) is CIRCUIT’S fourth annual Matariki commission for Masons Screen
LEGACIES | ROUTES
LEGACIES | ROUTES
LEGACIES | ROUTES is an exhibition and gathering taking place in Bangkok, Thailand featuring moving image artists connected with the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia whose practices embrace a multiplicity of inheritances and decentred ways of world-faring.
Otherwise Worlding Reader: Screening and Launch
Otherwise Worlding Reader: Screening and Launch
How can animation in contemporary moving image practices be critical of the commercial demand for spectacle and efficiency?
Otherwise Worlding is a new reader on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.
Legacies in conversation: May Adadol Ingawanij and Martin Sagadin
Legacies in conversation: May Adadol Ingawanij and Martin Sagadin
In conjunction with the exhibition Legacies, CIRCUIT presents a conversation with curator May Adadol Ingawanij and artist Martin Sagadin, moderated by Mark Williams.
The Legacies Reader
The Legacies Reader
What does a legacy taste, smell, sound, feel, or look like?
A new reader published in association with the 2022 Artist Cinema Commission programme Legacies.
What sparks the words?
What sparks the words?
A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art beyond the essay, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2023
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2023
Five works by Aotearoa artists will screen at the 69th Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany.
Tagata Moana Moving Image Award
Tagata Moana Moving Image Award
Christopher Ulutupu is the recipient of the 2022 Tagata Moana Moving Image Award.
The Pleasures of Unbelonging
The Pleasures of Unbelonging
Chris Ulutupu premieres The Pleasures of Unbelonging at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (UK) on 4 March 2023
The DNA of Film
The DNA of Film
A conversation with Nova Paul, Jamie Berry and Jae Hoon Lee, three artists whose recent works are born from a dynamic relationship between nature, mauri and filmic technologies
CIRCUIT Writer in Residence: Thomasin Sleigh
CIRCUIT Writer in Residence: Thomasin Sleigh
Thomasin Sleigh will undertake a three month writer's residency and produce a publication responding to the exhibition Legacies.
Otherwise-image-worlds
Otherwise-image-worlds
An exhibition of new moving image commissions by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Juliet Carpenter, Tanu Gago, Ary Jansen, and Sorawit Songsataya.
/drive-thru, play-thru/
/drive-thru, play-thru/
An online conversation with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ary Jansen moderated by Tendai Mutambu
Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows
Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows
Recent artists' moving image work from Aotearoa exploring indigenous histories and current discourse through an array of filmic languages.
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2022: Suzanne Tamaki
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2022: Suzanne Tamaki
“Manu—the fantastic plastic Māori-wearing a designer Matariki frock, shares her pearls of fashion wisdom with the people of Pōneke”.
Wairoa Māori Film Festival 2022
Wairoa Māori Film Festival 2022
Natasha Matila-Smith, Kauri Wharewera, Rangituhia Hollis, and Layne Waerea show works on the Kahungungu marae.
Anaerobic Video
Anaerobic Video
Nine videos originally programmed on Masons Screen 2016-22, addressing e-bikes, Matariki, reclaimed histories and more.
BORDER CROSSING CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
BORDER CROSSING CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
A series of screenings for Ukrainian children at refugee centres on the Poland / Hungary border.
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2022
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2022
Six works speaking to the present through archives, tourist souvenirs, familial legacies and pandemic histories.
Laura Duffy: Spawn
Laura Duffy: Spawn
An experimental new work by Laura Duffy commissioned specifically for the online context by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) + CIRCUIT.
Six Artists Respond to the Poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
Six Artists Respond to the Poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
A screening at Dunedin Public Art Gallery of Six Artists Respond to Joanna Margaret Paul.
Matariki Commission 2021: Kauri Wharewera
Kauri Wharewera's work Te kahui o Matariki is the second annual Matariki commission for Masons Screen.
Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns
Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns
2020's Artist Cinema Commissions are five new works by Rangituhia Hollis, Ana Iti, Alex Monteith, Sione Monu, and Gary-Ross Pastrana.
The Sound of Seeing
The Sound of Seeing
A series of three film screenings that present an alternative history of Aotearoa experimental music, seen through artists' film and video.
Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows
Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows
A curated selection of recent artists' film and video from Aotearoa, shown at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon.
Experiment 120 (La nature, les machines et les objets)
Experiment 120 (La nature, les machines et les objets)
A programme of works that CIRCUIT was invited to curate for the EXPERIMENT 120 festival of films for children in Nantes, France.
Mana Moana Residency: Israel Randell
Mana Moana Residency: Israel Randell
Nau mai, haere mai to Israel Randell, our 2020 Mana Moana Resident.
Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka, Kōhatu Tipua
Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka, Kōhatu Tipua
CIRCUIT and the Wellington City Council present Kōhatu Tipua, a new work by Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka.
CIRCUIT at Rotterdam Film Festival 2020
CIRCUIT at Rotterdam Film Festival 2020
CIRCUIT artists at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.
In the Shadow of Wellywood
In the Shadow of Wellywood
Mike Heynes, Max Fleury, Anna Brimer, and Pippy McClenaghan show new work that reuses cast-offs and found materials.
An Oceanic Feeling
An Oceanic Feeling
A screening of .TV, described in Artforum as “a deadly serious but wittily poised prophecy of environmental oblivion."
Projection Series #6: A Little Faith
Projection Series #6: A Little Faith
Seven artist videos examining the pitfalls of trust. As confidence in political systems plummets worldwide, what alternative belief systems might we choose to explore?