Writing & PodcastNgā Putanga Kōrero

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

Connie Brown writes on Sam Hamilton's installation at Artspace Aotearoa, Te Moana Meridian (2022)

An 44-page e-book, commissioned alongside the 2022 Artist Cinema Commissions. This reader includes writing from Tina Makereti, Huni Mancini, and curator of the commissions, May Adadol Ingawanij.

Curator May Adadol Ingwanaij and artist Ukrit Sa-nguanhai discuss Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 Artist Cinema Commissions.

Suzanne Tamaki speaks to Leo Koziol about her recent Matariki commission and their collaborative work Cuisinaire

Martin Rumsby has passed. We remember the pioneering film-maker, writer, programmer and champion of New Zealand experimental film.

This side or that side, or almost. Standing by is an online exhibition of three video works by Richard Orjis, Emily Parr, and Janaína Moraes, accompanied by an essay by Alys Longley.

Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the latest chapter in the Māori Moving Image exhibition series, is sensitive to the mauri of materials and place.

Dangerous dating, ESP, and community video: a quick-fire round up of moving image activity around Auckland's galleries.

Curator Tendai Mutambu talks to Sorawit Songsataya and Ary Jansen about their works in the group exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds

Alicia Frankovich’s Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies at the Christchurch Art Gallery picks apart the desire to categorise, classify, and impose order on the natural world.

Mark Williams talks to filmmaker Martin Sagadin about their formative film influences and the two films now streaming on CIRCUIT, The Short Trilogy of Peace and Oko na Roki.

Louie Zalk-Neale, Gabriel White, and Jamie Berry showed new work on Masons Screen in Wellington's CBD while people protested against the vaccine mandates, and Aotearoa tipped in and out of lockdowns.

Sound is not static, it moves in waves and into the flickering, morphing kupesi patterns of Sione Faletau's work.

Can failure be generative? How is the athletic strength of women depicted and interpreted? What happens when we restage events from the past?

The colonial villa and its attendant myths of empire are collapsed by George Watson in her exhibition of new video and sculpture at Te Uru, Kōtiro, Emepaea.

Kai Tāhu collaborate with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery on three exhibitions Hurahia Ana Kā Whetu: Unveiling the Stars, He Reka Te Kūmara, and Paemanu: Tauraka Toi—A Landing Place, in "one epic and epochal mahi toi responding to mana whenua".

Outgoing Artspace Aotearoa director Remco de Blaaij discusses his final curatorial project at the gallery, Ex-post.

In this conversation with Matthew Wood, Gabriel White discusses his twenty-year practice of making films which use the city as material; parallels between his work and mythic literature; and Countdown Mountain as a requiem for Auckland.

Parr and Walker explore the history of settler and Indigenous relations in Aoteroa and expand the metaphor of whatu (weaving)—through relationships, time, whenua, objects, and images.