Writing & PodcastNgā Putanga Kōrero

Robyn Maree Pickens writes on Ngā raraunga o te Mākū: te hā o Haupapa, an iteration in a series of artworks that emanate from Haupapa Tasman glacier, held at Blue Oyster in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Lila Bullen-Smith writes on she feeds the birds (2023), a dystopian filmic take on Tāmaki Makaurau by Lily Worrall.

A picture essay of CIRCUIT's trip to Bangkok, featuring Aotearoa artists Martin Sagadin, Pati Tyrell, Tanu Gago and a community of Thai artists and film-makers.

"I will not be afraid despite the fear tumbling through my body" — Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Haua, Tainui/Waikato, Ngāti Waewae, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu) speaks with Dani McIntosh for the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.

A conversation between artist Juliet Carpenter and writer Sebastjan Brank on the occasion of Carpenter's participation in the exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds (2022).

"Dwelling in the void space" — a conversation between Selina Ershadi and Dani McIntosh, the second part of the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.

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.

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

"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.

A conversation between artist Hiona Henare and curator Leo Koziol about Henare's 2023 Matariki commission for Masons Screen.

Hana Pera Aoake writes on Sorawit Songsataya's solo exhibition Nirun at the University of Otago's Hocken Gallery.

A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.

How can artists in the regions experiment with emergent artistic technologies? Maggie Buxton discusses BIOS at Whangārei Art Museum.

Sinead Overbye considers artists' approach to place and representation in the 2022-23 Masons Screen commissions.

"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

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

Hamish Win writes on James Oram's recent exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, By Spectral Hands.

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

"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

In this podcast we discuss 2022's memorable art world happenings with Judy Darragh, Gloriana Meyers and Andrew Clifford.