Podcasts
![A screen plays an underwater image in a darkened room. There are shaped piles of stones in the foreground.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/tia-barrett_install-coco-circuit.jpg)
Hihi Aho: Tia Barrett
Hihi Aho: Tia Barrett
"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.
![Close up of thick seaweed in the ocean](/images/1050x660/images/posts/sandy-wakefield-nakunaku-2020.jpeg)
Hihi Aho: Sandy Wakefield
Hihi Aho: Sandy Wakefield
"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.
![A man speaks into a phone standing in dense bush](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Tanya-Te-Miringa-Te-Rorarangi-Ruka-Aue-te-Manuhiri-2023.jpg)
Hihi Aho: Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka
Hihi Aho: Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka
"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.
![A portrait photograph of a Pasifika woman is set amidst orange-red hibiscus flowers](/images/1050x660/Production-Still-Leala-Faleseuga-Lealaivaega-2024-Courtesy-of-the-Artist.jpg)
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
Wild Wild Life: Artist Talk
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.
![A black background with white text that reads 'Those who have been, Those who exist now, Those who are yet to be'. Underneath the text is a square image of a baby's feet in a bath.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Hana-Pera-Aoake_te-tamaiti,-te-ao_2022_CIRCUIT_web.jpg)
Sites of Connection: Hana Pera Aoake
Sites of Connection: Hana Pera Aoake
"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 double exposure photograph of a woman standing on a desert mountain, shot from below](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Selina-Ershadi-Amator-2019-CIRCUIT-3-1696892016.jpg)
Sites of Connection: Selina Ershadi
Sites of Connection: Selina Ershadi
"Dwelling in the void space" — a conversation between Selina Ershadi and Dani McIntosh, the second part of the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.
![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..."](/images/1050x660/images/posts/hewaiataaroha_3.png)
Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi
Sites of Connection: James Tapsell-Kururangi
A conversation between James Tapsell-Kururangi and Dani McIntosh on the metaphoric and poetic potential of the moving image.
![An open book sits on a wooden surface. The text is large font size and reads vertically across the two pages.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Legacies-reader-5.jpg)
What sparks the words? Four writers on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art
What sparks the words? Four writers on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art
A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.
![Pieces of organic matter are visible in tangled translucent blue tubing](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Zone-1_Installation_-umbilical-affinities_-AwhiWorld.-Photo-by-Nimmy-Santhosh_CIRCUIT.jpg)
"One giant altered reality... across the planet."
"One giant altered reality... across the planet."
How can artists in the regions experiment with emergent artistic technologies? Maggie Buxton discusses BIOS at Whangārei Art Museum.
![a blurred image of a new born baby with a mothers hand across it](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Leala-Faleseuga_Vessel_-Dissolution_It's-in-the-milk_2023_CIRCUIT_1--1679455562.jpg)
Visceral Motherhood
Visceral Motherhood
Leala Faleseuga discusses the mediation of memory and motherhood through images.
![A dense multi-media installation including TV monitors, a pair of hanging sneakers, a computer, Pasifika musical instruments, stencil on the wall and more.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Installation-shot_-Anonymouz_CIRCUIT.jpg)
"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.
![An image of a 16mm black and white film still, which depicts broken trees and a background of bush](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Nova-Paul_Rakau_2022_CIRCUIT_1.jpg)
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.
![An interior corridor in a spacecraft](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Triple-Feature-11,-Photo-Cheska-Brown.jpg)
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.
![An old black and white film showing a boy in a quarry is superimposed over a modern day rural scene](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Ukrit-Sa-Ngauanhai_Trip-After_2022_CIRCUIT_2-images.jpg)
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.
![A pair of animated hands holds a camera in front of a pixellated background. On the viewfinder of the camera we see a Thai temple](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Still-from-Mnemosyne-(2022)-Sorawit-Songsataya_CIRCUIT.jpeg)
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
![Morphing yellow and golden kupesi patterns](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Sione-Faletau_Winds_2021.png)
Sione Faletau
Sione Faletau
Sound is not static, it moves in waves and into the flickering, morphing kupesi patterns of Sione Faletau's work.
![A line of older women in swimsuits and swim-caps walk along the perimiter of the pool, some of them look excited and some look a little nervous](/images/1050x660/images/posts/Sandy-Gibbs-The-Swimming-Race-2018.jpg)
Sandy Gibbs
Sandy Gibbs
Can failure be generative? How is the athletic strength of women depicted and interpreted? What happens when we restage events from the past?
![A drone flies through the inside of a building which has concrete steps and a window outside to greenery. The colour of the image is blueish grey as if its dawn, dusk or a very cloudy day](/images/1050x660/images/posts/still_from_drones_frosted_bats_and_the_testimony_of_the_deceased_chia_wei_hsu_circuit.jpg)
Remco De Blaaij, Ex-post and ARTSPACE
Remco De Blaaij, Ex-post and ARTSPACE
Outgoing Artspace Aotearoa director Remco de Blaaij discusses his final curatorial project at the gallery, Ex-post.
![A montage of four speakers in a Zoom video conferencing call window. The speakers are, clockwise from left: Abby Cunnane, Robbie Handcock, Nigel Borell, Sophie Davis](/images/1050x660/images/posts/circuit_cast_102_panellists.jpg)
The Year in Art
The Year in Art
What was 2021? Host Robbie Handcock discusses a most unusual year of art and moving image with guests Abby Cunnane, Sophie Davis, and Nigel Borell.
![A screengrab from a zoom session shows Serena, Thomasin, Tendai and Lisa smiling in their offices or homes which they are calling in from](/images/1050x660/images/posts/serena_bentley_thomasin_sleigh_tendai_mutambu_lisa_berndt_circuit_pod_0.jpg)
Tendai Mutambu, Serena Bentley, Lisa Berndt
Tendai Mutambu, Serena Bentley, Lisa Berndt
Artists' Moving Image in the pandemic era—a glut of compromise or new horizons for exhibition and accessibility? Three curators and arts professionals discuss a shift from showing in small towns, major cities, and institutions to the online space, and what the future might bring.