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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

Taking a line for a walk
Taking a line for a walk
Connie Brown writes on Sam Hamilton's installation at Artspace Aotearoa, Te Moana Meridian (2022)

The Legacies Reader
The Legacies Reader
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.

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

Remembering Martin Rumsby
Remembering Martin Rumsby
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
This side or that side, or almost. Standing by
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.

Overlap and Unfurl
Overlap and Unfurl
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.

24 Hours Tāmaki: 2022 Edition
24 Hours Tāmaki: 2022 Edition
Dangerous dating, ESP, and community video: a quick-fire round up of moving image activity around Auckland's galleries.