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

An Indifferent World
An Indifferent World
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.

We're All Walking Around with Disorganised Films in our Pockets
We're All Walking Around with Disorganised Films in our Pockets
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.

3 New Works in a Year of Protest and Pandemic
3 New Works in a Year of Protest and Pandemic
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.

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