Writing & PodcastNgā Putanga Kōrero

Hana Pera Aoake considers the poetic and generative role of whakapapa—a means of creating layers—in Emily Parr's Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla (2021).

"There is a vitality that is held in the earth" — a kōrero between artist Nat Tozer and CIRCUIT director Mark Williams on the occasion of the Aotearoa premiere of Erotic Geologies, Tozer's most complex work to date.

Artists Dieneke Jansen and Heleyni Pratley discuss using art as a tool for social justice, moderated by Mark Williams and presented at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space in association with the exhibition Homing Instinct. 

"I see the environment as a creative partner" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Tia Barrett (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Tamainupō, Ngāti Maniapoto), the third and final episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.

Kirsty Baker considers creation, expansion, and the contingencies of mystic Hildegard Von Bingen's Lingua Ignota in Sriwhana Spong's a hook but no fish (2017).

"Whanaungatanga is this gift we have as Māori to connect and to relate" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Sandy Wakefield (Ngapuhi, Ngāi Tahu), the second episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.

Bronwyn Holloway-Smith responds to the 2024 Masons Screen commissions and considers the potential contribution of public art to contemporary political discourse.

"To mark a mountain by a song" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka (Ngāpuhi, Ngati Pakau and Waitaha), the first episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.

Samuel Te Kani responds to Skin in craters like the moon, an exhibition at Te Tuhi of recent works by Tāmaki Makaurau-based, Taiwanese (Han, Min-nan) artist Susu 蘇子誠 that explored associations between language and memory across virtual and physical worlds.

Artists Layne Waerea, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Gabriel White and Tia Barrett discuss their video works for Wild Wild Life with curator Mark Williams.

Victoria Wynne-Jones considers an amicable approach to historiography in three recent works by Tim Wagg.

Wild Wild Life is a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day. Featuring works by Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White.

Layne Waerea responds to To move between: Healing and Resistance, an exhibition of work by Abenaki Nation filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin, presented at Artspace Aotearoa.

Mark Amery considers the role of moving image in giving voice in the work of artist Cushla Donaldson, with a focus on the 2021 film, Neighbourhood of Truth.

Otherwise Worlding is 66-page e-book on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.

A conversation between artist Tanu Gago and filmmaker Raqi Syed on the occasion of Gago's participation in the exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds (2022).

In this expansive and lyrical text, writer Gwynneth Porter explores poetry, self-fictioning and plasticity in three recent works by Aliyah Winter.

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.