Still from Winds (2021) Sione Faletau
Sound is not static, it moves in waves and into the flickering, morphing kupesi patterns of Sione Faletau's work.
Sione Faletau discusses his practice of translating the traditional Tongan practice of kupesi (patterns) into digital video, using site-specific audio recordings and traditional Tongan music as the basis for generating images.
Faletau talks about two upcoming shows at the Gus Fisher Gallery and Masons Screen.
Recorded sound from Auckland's CBD is transformed into kupesi (pattern).
Imagery of three interconnected canoes, keeping each other afloat on the moana.
Visual kupesi (Tongan patterns) are created and move in response to a Tongan choir.
An audio recording of Waitemata Harbour is used to generate visual kupesi (Tongan patterns).
A song commemorating survivors of the 1962 Tuaikaepau shipwreck is rendered visually as a vivid kupesi (Tongan patterns).
Erotic Geologies: Nat Tozer
"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.
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.
