Darcel stands in a white raffia costume against a plain white background

Still from Saw (2011) Darcell Apelu

CIRCUIT Cast #84Īpāho

An Interview with Darcell Apelu

Hosted by Mark Williams · April 19, 2020

Darcell Apelu talks to Mark Williams about a recent residency in Yorkshire spent contemplating her practice.

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Is time out the most productive time of all?

Darcell Apelu talks to Mark Williams about a recent residency in Yorkshire spent contemplating her practice. She also discusses a trip to her father's homeland of Niue, two resulting videos, and previous performance works which drew on the body, ideas of 'otherness' and her career as an international wood chopper.

Watch Darcell's video work on CIRCUIT here.

Applications for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Te Tuhi UK Residency Award 2020 are extended until 31 May 2020.

Ngā ataata o tēnei pāhotangaWorks discussed in this episode

Tall palm trees are seen from below with blue skies above.
Darcell Apelu

Touchdown (2017)

The camera moves through water and across sand. This work considers the body's connection with the land.

Touchdown
A collage of images in a radial pattern. Images are of people running, the sea, rocks, and trees.
Darcell Apelu

Next time (2019)

Scenes from around Niue—sports games, beaches, the ocean—are doubled and inverted into a pattern.

Next time
A person looks into the camera with a spotlight shining on them, they're surrounded by black.
Darcell Apelu

Happy Islander (2013)

A person stares out at the camera, keeping a fixed smile firmly on their face.

Happy Islander
Chop
Darcell Apelu

Chop (2011)

Two of the artist's parallel worlds combined: wood chopping and their Polynesian culture.

Chop
Saw
Darcell Apelu

Saw (2011)

Two of the artist's parallel worlds are combined: woodchopping and their Polynesian culture.

Saw

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A double exposure photograph of a woman standing on a desert mountain, shot from below

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Hosted by Dani McIntosh · September 7, 2023

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Selina Ershadi
An indistinct blur of white light next to a block of black. At the bottom of the screen is a caption which reads "I am but a conversation..."

Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi

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Hosted by Dani McIntosh · August 6, 2023

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

James Tapsell-Kururangi
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