CIRCUIT CAST

Cinema of splendour or 'be-numbed ego-centrism'? Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and Mark Amery review Matthew Barney's epic cine-opera River of Fundament. The pod discuss Barney's interplay between sculpture, cinema and visual art, his positions on gender and women, and his many references to celebrated figures of the 20th century avant-garde. Is this a film for our times? All this plus J Hoberma...

How does a gallery best serve it’s public? How does a gallery best serve an artist? In this podcast Ema Tavola, Judy Darragh and host Mark Amery find many resonances in the work of Angela Tiatia, but lament the missed opportunities in a survey at Māngere Arts Centre. Image credit: Angela Tiatia, Walking the Wall, 2014, Digital Video, Duration 13:04 minutes. Courtesy of the Artist & Alcaston Galler...

Curator George Clark and Writer Martin Patrick discuss Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue, Sol Le Witt's assertion that conceptual artists are not rationalists but mystics, and how we mediate the claims of the internet to represent the world. George Clark is CIRCUIT's 2016 curator at large. Martin Patrick is a writer and academic based in Wellington, NZ. Grosse Fatigue is at City Gallery Wellington u...

From moving images to gang portraits to wonky pots; in this podcast our panel consider the most interesting events in the New Zealand art world of 2015. Host Mark Amery is joined by regulars Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh plus newbies Emma Bugden and Reuben Friend.

How do we talk about what can’t be spoken? Thai artist Sutthirat Supaprinya (Som) discusses her recent installation at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre in Wellington entitled STEAL THIS BOOK. Reflecting on censorship, misinformation and buried histories, she talks about art’s role in illuminating the past and present. The WARE (Wellington Artists Residency Exchange) is a collaboration between Wellington Cit...

Women appear, but on whose terms? In this recording from the 2015 London Film Festival Lucy Reynolds (artist, writer and Course Leader of MRes Art: Moving Image, Central Saint Martins) chairs a discussion on how women artists are represented in the histories of experimental film. Panellists include Charlotte Procter (Collections Manager of LUX & Member of the Cinenova Working Group), Maud Jacquin...

What is an artist-run space today? Mark Amery talks to Chloe Geoghegan, Director of Dunedin's Blue Oyster about the evolution of the gallery, her previous role at Dog Park in Christchurch and Dunedin's new City Council-led arts precinct.

On the phone from Sydney, Jae Hoon Lee talks to Mark Amery about showing his work in a hotel at the Spring 1883 art fair, how his practice draws on Eastern spiritual philosophy and his recent residency at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Art vs Architecture? Ego vs Id? In this pod we review Demented Architecture at City Gallery Wellington and discuss whether the show really sets out to show the two disciplines as the best of enemies. Host Mark Amery is joined by regular guests Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh.

Where does your mind go? Christina Read talks to Mark Amery about her installation The Brain which brings together 15 artists works in an idiosyncratic spatial and conceptual diagram of a brain. Curated by artist Christina Read and commissioned by CIRCUIT in partnership with Te Uru Waitakere with the support of Creative New Zealand, The Brain is ituated within a sculptural platform conceived and c...

How does a film-maker respond to a poem? Nova Paul talks to Mark Amery about the making of her film Still Light and film maker Joanna Paul's 'radical simplicity'. Still Light screens as part of Six Artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul, 7pm, Friday 14 August, Academy Cinema, Auckland. $10 or free with CIRCUIT symposium registration.

Dirk de Bruyn is an Australian experimental film-maker whose recent film Threshold uses Google Maps and aerial photography to examine how technology constructs memory. At the CIRCUIT symposium Dirk will present Threshold as part of an illustrated lecture. To find out more about the CIRCUIT Symposium 'A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice' see the website - http://circuit.org.nz/genealogy-of-moving-...

Ahead of the upcoming CIRCUIT symposium A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice we talk to presenter Shannon Te Ao about his film Untitled (epilogue) made in response to a collection of poems by Joanna Margaret Paul. Still from Untitled (epilogue) Shannon Te Ao 2015

In this pod Janine Randerson discusses her upcoming collaboration with CIRCUIT for the New Zealand Film Festival entitled Place Unmaking, featuring work by Alex Monteith, Richard Von Sturmer, Layne Waerea and others. We also discuss Randerson’s own practice of collaborating with scientists and engineers. Still from Seawater and Dust (2015) Janine Randerson

In conjunction with her show at Enjoy Gallery 'I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now', Bridget Reweti discusses lost utopias, how Maori have adapted new spiritual movements, and singing lessons. Your host is Mark Amery, Music by Tlaotlon. Supported by Creative New Zealand

Episode 24: How much do we need to read? How much does the text infect the work? In this pod we dissect recent publications on Shannon Te Ao, Kim Pieters and the group show Cinema and Painting. Host Mark Amery and guests Thomasin Sleigh and Martin Patrick read passages from the an essay by Tina Barton, a lecture by Hollis Frampton and discuss how “what is written today will be different tomorrow”.

"I'm more interested in shows with smaller budgets but bigger ideas". Ahead of the upcoming show by Matthew Cowan, Jeff Henderson the Director of The Audio Foundation talks to Mark Amery about folk tradition as a precursor of noise music, the ethos of running a multi-disciplinary space, and the economies of arts funding - “the models accepted by festivals are flawed”. Image: (L) Jeff Henderson, Di...

“I wanted to be very ambitious at a time when it looked like the economy was collapsing”. In this pod Lisa Reihana discusses her installation in Pursuit of Venus (infected) at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Based on 19th century wallpaper, Reihana’s scrolling video installation addresses a moment of early colonial contact between European and South Pacific peoples. Part 1 (0-8.22) The genesis...

How important is the gallery exhibition to the work? In this podcast Mark Amery talks to pioneering pop artist and conceptualist Billy Apple about his survey at Auckland Art Gallery The Artist Has to Live Like Everyone Else. Apple reflects on his collaboration with Nam Jun Paik, his willingness to be cloned and his work with agencies from Saatchi and Saatchi to Womens Refuge.

What makes a group of works an exhibition? How does one translate a public art action into the gallery? How does art give witness to catastrophe? These and other big questions on this CIRCUIT CAST as Emil Dryburgh, Mark Jackson and host Mark Amery review the recent St Paul St show Invisible Energy.

What makes a video a performance? In this pod Mark Amery interviews artists Denise Batchelor and Erica Sklenars about their work in the The Performance Arcade, a annual festival of “installation, performance art, sonic art, audio-visual art, interactive media, culinary art and live music” presented in shipping containers on the Wellington waterfront. Our thanks to the artists and Sam Trubridge. Im...

In our first pod for 2015 we discuss the online component of The Drowned World, an exhibition of student work curated by Daniel Satele for Tautai Pacific Arts Trust. Featuring panellists Claudia Arozqueta, Thomasin Sleigh and host Mark Amery. In part 1 we discuss works by Nina Oberg Humphries, Elyjana Roach and Jasmine Te Hira. In part 2 we discuss the online environment as exhibition platform; Di...

What were the best exhibitions of 2014? Best emerging artist? Best art writing? Did the public programme taken over the exhibition? Are you cuddling a Care Bear? Megan Dunn, Martin Patrick and host Mark Amery ask the important questions about the year that was, with email best-of's from Pod regular Thomasin Sleigh. Part 1: 00:00-12:50 Best shows of 2014, Auckland's aggressiveness versus Wellington...

In this edition of CIRCUIT Cast we interview Tahi Moore about his show Psyche Rebuild at Hopkinson Mossman and discuss how his practice investigates the gap between thought and language; in our round table discussion our guests Mark Jackson and Ahilapalapa Rands discuss the Auckland Art Gallery’s summer blockbuster Light Show. Your host is Mark Amery. Image: Magic Hour (2004-2007) David Batchelor....

In this CIRCUIT podcast we take a break from our usual three-act format to interview Adnan Yıldız, incoming director of Artspace Auckland. Adnan talks about research, collaboration and his vision for Artspace. Additional comments from acting Artspace Director Anna Gardner. Your interviewer is Mark Amery. Edited by Callum Devlin. Image credit: Misal Adnan Yıldız, Photo by Fabian Schewe (At the back...