Current Exhibitions

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A split screen of a young child sitting on a sofa and a close up of an older woman in the other frame

Memory / Lapse

Exhibition
Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre, Ōtautahi Christchurch · April 24, 2025 - May 17, 2025

Memory / Lapse is a programme of six moving image works by artists from Aotearoa, Malaysia, and Thailand who explore the space between memory and oblivion.

Memory Lapse
an AI-generated animation of an expanding blue crystal form with some leaf shapes

Leap to the Place of Two Pools

Exhibition
Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington · January 31, 2025 - April 5, 2025

Leap to the Place of Two Pools presents five new moving image works by artists who resist or relinquish ocularcentrism through multisensorial knowledge systems. With works by Kah Bee Chow, Selina Ershadi, Kite, Sonya Lacey, and James Tapsell-Kururangi.

Leap to the Place of Two Pools
Two women in kebaya dress stand and sit next to an outdoor bench at an airport

Homing Instinct

Exhibition

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).

Homing Instinct
A young Pasifika woman leans steadfastly against the bonnet of a boy racer style car, which has speakers mounted on the roof

Legacies

Exhibition
Various Dates 2023-24

Five short films for cinema by Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Solomona-Tyrell, Sriwhana Spong

Legacies
A person in a tracksuit and beanie dances along a bridge.

CORPS

Exhibition
Espace Culturel François Mitterrand, Périgueux, France · March 8, 2024 - May 31, 2024

Works by Rebecca Ann Hobbs and Kate Walker will be shown in France as part of the group exhibition CORPS, curated by Marie-Pierre Bonniol

CORPS

LEGACIES | ROUTES

Exhibition
August 2, 2023 - September 30, 2023

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.

Legacies | Routes

Otherwise-image-worlds

Exhibition
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery · June 3, 2022 - September 3, 2022

An exhibition of new moving image commissions by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Juliet Carpenter, Tanu Gago, Ary Jansen, and Sorawit Songsataya.

Otherwise-image-worlds
Multiple images of people playing in and laying next to a stream are overlaid in layers of cyan magenta yellow and black.

Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows

Exhibition
City Gallery Wellington · April 29, 2022 - August 13, 2022

Recent artists' moving image work from Aotearoa exploring indigenous histories and current discourse through an array of filmic languages.

Tai timu! Tai pari!
A close up of a natural organism that has rotted or decayed into a new form somewhere between the grotesque and beautiful. The organism sits on top of another green organic material with patches of liquid which appear to be stretched as if they have turned into a gooey substance

Laura Duffy: Spawn

Exhibition
Australian Center of Moving Image · November 30, 2021 - March 5, 2022

An experimental new work by Laura Duffy commissioned specifically for the online context by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) + CIRCUIT.

Laura Duffy - Spawn
Mirroed to reflect one another, small waves on a gray ocean break, overlaid with digital tekoteko and tukutuku

Whakapapa/Algorithms

Exhibition
The Audio Foundation, Auckland · March 18, 2021 - April 9, 2021

A new exhibition of multi-media work by Jamie Berry.

Whakapapa / Algorithms - an exhibition by Jamie Berry
A person sits in a lounge room on a comfortable couch wearing a pink beanie with jewels hanging out of from the beanie. They are listening to something on their Bluetooth speaker

Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns

Exhibition
March 30, 2021

2020's Artist Cinema Commissions are five new works by Rangituhia Hollis, Ana Iti, Alex Monteith, Sione Monu, and Gary-Ross Pastrana.

CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions: Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns
Three plastic characters are all dressed in white in front of a bright pink and blue swirling background. One character is wearing a headpiece with sharp horns, another is wearing a white cowboy hat.

In the Shadow of Wellywood

Exhibition
Plumbers Supreme, Wellington · Saturday 30 September–Saturday 6 October 2019

Mike Heynes, Max Fleury, Anna Brimer, and Pippy McClenaghan show new work that reuses cast-offs and found materials.

In the Shadow of Wellywood
A person with dark hair sits in a domestic setting facing the camera. Their eyes look to something offscreen. The background is blurred, but shows, at left, a pastel coloured curtain. At right, we see a window through whichappears to be nature.

Projection Series #6: A Little Faith

Exhibition
Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth · May 5, 2017 - June 23, 2017

Seven artist videos examining the pitfalls of trust. As confidence in political systems plummets worldwide, what alternative belief systems might we choose to explore?

Projection Series #6: A Little Faith

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