InterviewsUiuinga

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. 

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

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

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

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

“It was proposed as a little musical game, but it does involve pain.”

Jeff Henderson speaks to Judy Darragh about nine videos referencing Aotearoa's history of corporal punishment

Suzanne Tamaki speaks to Leo Koziol about her recent Matariki commission and their collaborative work Cuisinaire

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.

In this conversation with Matthew Wood, Gabriel White discusses his twenty-year practice of making films which use the city as material; parallels between his work and mythic literature; and Countdown Mountain as a requiem for Auckland.

Parr and Walker explore the history of settler and Indigenous relations in Aoteroa and expand the metaphor of whatu (weaving)—through relationships, time, whenua, objects, and images.

Public space, the lifecycle of everyday objects, and clashing ideas of value. Max Fleury discusses four works on CIRCUIT that include collaborations with Anna Brimer, Bena Jackson, and Sabina Rizos-Shaw.

Curator Israel Randell talks to Kauri Wharewera about his Matariki commission for Masons Screen entitled Te Kahui o Matariki.

A panel discussion that took place between Greg Dvorak, Lana Lopesi, and David Teh at CIRCUIT's Sovereign Pacific/Pacific Sovereigns Symposium at Pātaka Art + Museum in Porirua.

(ex)CLAIM is an interview series by Israel Randell, in which she meets practitioners from Aotearoa whose work seeks to correct imbalances in our bi-cultural histories. In this interview she meets Tanu Gago.

(ex)CLAIM is an interview series by Israel Randell, in which she meets practitioners from Aotearoa whose work seeks to correct imbalances in our bi-cultural histories. In this interview, she meets Kahurangiariki Smith.

(ex)CLAIM is an interview series by Israel Randell, in which she meets practitioners from Aotearoa whose work seeks to correct imbalances in our bi-cultural histories. In this interview, Jamie Berry discusses collaboration and the conscious shift to tell history through a non-colonised lens.

(ex)CLAIM is an interview series by Israel Randell, in which she meets practitioners from Aotearoa whose work seeks to correct imbalances in our bi-cultural histories. In this first interview, Suzanne Tamaki discusses a new suite of works made in response to Black Lives Matter.

With a dozen video works from 1973-2019 now on CIRCUIT, renowned New Zealand/Canadian artist Bruce Barber sat down with Mark Williams to discuss a career spent working inside and outside the art world.

Originally published as part of the 2018 CIRCUIT Symposium e-book The Time of Now, this conversation between Cushla Donaldson and academic Dr David Hall addresses Donaldson's work 501s.

CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams sits down with Clinton Watkins to discuss a series of recent works inspired by Stanley Kubrick, ecological awareness, and musical manifestos.