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Sites of Connection: Selina Ershadi
Sites of Connection: Selina Ershadi
"Dwelling in the void space" — a conversation between Selina Ershadi and Dani McIntosh, the second part of the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.
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The air, like a stone
The air, like a stone
Hamish Win writes on The air, like a stone, an exhibition at The Physics Room that brought together a new commission by Ōtautahi-based artist Emma Fitts with a feature-length work by the London-based painter and filmmaker Rosalind Nashashibi.

Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi
Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi
A conversation between James Tapsell-Kururangi and Dani McIntosh on the metaphoric and poetic potential of the moving image.

Road Toll
Road Toll
"The road as escape, the road as gendered independence and virility, as freedom. The road as an awfully white, awfully landed marker of progress and moral good." — Lachlan Taylor considers Grant Priest's recent exhibition CAN at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.

They Ain't Woke Yet: Hiona Henare in conversation with Leo Koziol
They Ain't Woke Yet: Hiona Henare in conversation with Leo Koziol
A conversation between artist Hiona Henare and curator Leo Koziol about Henare's 2023 Matariki commission for Masons Screen.
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The act of reciprocity with the living land
The act of reciprocity with the living land
Hana Pera Aoake writes on Sorawit Songsataya's solo exhibition Nirun at the University of Otago's Hocken Gallery.

What sparks the words? Four writers on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art
What sparks the words? Four writers on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art
A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.

"One giant altered reality... across the planet."
"One giant altered reality... across the planet."
How can artists in the regions experiment with emergent artistic technologies? Maggie Buxton discusses BIOS at Whangārei Art Museum.

Magic Between Worlds: on Masons Screen
Magic Between Worlds: on Masons Screen
Sinead Overbye considers artists' approach to place and representation in the 2022-23 Masons Screen commissions.
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Enabling Phrases, Spaces, Places
Enabling Phrases, Spaces, Places
"In here, space is soft. Like blocking a lightbulb with your fingers, the walls betray an illuminated, epidermal glow." — Alena Kavka discusses Who can think, what can think at Te Tuhi

Visceral Motherhood
Visceral Motherhood
Leala Faleseuga discusses the mediation of memory and motherhood through images.

"The water in the container, that’s our bodies on display".
"The water in the container, that’s our bodies on display".
Hamish Win writes on James Oram's recent exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, By Spectral Hands.

how they dream, how we dream
how they dream, how we dream
An interview with Brit Bunkley on AI, the deep fakes amongst us already, and his ongoing interest in Anarchy as a political movement.

To See Obliquely: Kate van der Drift’s Listening to a Wet Land
To See Obliquely: Kate van der Drift’s Listening to a Wet Land
"The reality of being in this country as descendants of settlers is something that is more akin to the reality of swamplands" — Alena Kavka writes on Kate van der Drift's show at Pah Homestead

"The air was sucked out of the room" — 2022 in review
"The air was sucked out of the room" — 2022 in review
In this podcast we discuss 2022's memorable art world happenings with Judy Darragh, Gloriana Meyers and Andrew Clifford.

The DNA of Film
The DNA of Film
Nova Paul, Jamie Berry and Jae Hoon Lee discuss the intersection of old and new technologies with the living world of mauri, whakapapa and spiritual practice.

Art, Authorship & Reuse
Art, Authorship & Reuse
Who owns art? Should culture be under copyright? What are the limits of fair use? Artists Josh Azzarella, Bronwyn Holloway-Smith and Eugene Hansen discuss with host Caitlin Lynch.

Alex Plumb: from rapture to rupture
Alex Plumb: from rapture to rupture
In Alex Plumb's moving image works, fact, fantasy and sonic detail imagine what reality might be.

Ritual of feeling
Ritual of feeling
In the colonial grandeur of Pah Homestead, Xi Li's Brain Island simulates a pulsating futuristic fantasy