CIRCUIT CAST

In this months CIRCUIT Cast; William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time is discussed in front of a live audience at City Gallery Wellington by host Mark Amery, panellists Thomasin Sleigh and Martin Patrick and an audience member; in part 2 we talk to Simon Denny mid-install for The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom at the Adam Art Gallery, and in Part 3 we begin a new monthly feature on artist-run space...

In this podcast our panel dissect Gavin Hipkins’ feature film adaptation of Samuel Butler’s 1872 novel Erewhon, asking what message Butler and Hipkins have for us in 2014? In Part 2 we talk to Kim Paton about the vibrant SPARK media arts festival in Hamilton. Your host as always is Mark Amery, with guests Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh.

This months CIRCUIT CAST talks to keynote George Clark about Camille Henrot and all the exciting screenings, talks and events at the upcoming CIRCUIT symposium Locating the Practice. In part 2 Simon Rees merrily spills the beans on the next 3 years of Govett-Brewster programming and offers a few international perspectives on the contemporary NZ art scene.

This months CIRCUIT CAST is an export quality edition; Mark Amery joins Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh at the Tongan contemporary survey Tonga ‘i Onopooni at Pataka, Kim Pieters journeys up from the Dunedin underground to to present her survey What is a life? at the Adam Art Gallery, and mid-install of her group show with the Mata Aho collective Kaokao, Terri Te Tau discusses sending her insta...

In the pod this month our critical panel finds much to celebrate in Peter Wareing's Stuggorings and Fijetterings at Enjoy Gallery, we visit Seung Yul Oh mid-install of his 10 year survey MoaMoa at City Gallery Wellington and we dial up curator Mercedes Vicente on a crackly line in Spain to discuss her Art and Social Change research residency in India, subsequent exhibitions in Christchurch and Auc...

This month’s CIRCUIT CAST is on the road; from Wellington Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and Mark Amery discuss Simon Starling’s ‘In Speculuum’, in Auckland Te Tuhi Director James McCarthy talks about his new job as Van Driver/Wrestler for the Maldives Exodus Caravan Show; while in Dunedin performance and video artist Samin Son discusses his Blue Oyster residency and the possibility of leaving Ne...

It's the first CIRCUIT Cast for 2014! In this months pod we talk to Australian artist Nathan Gray about his decision to withdraw from this years Sydney Biennale, just hours before the Biennale ended it's association with controversial sponsor Transfield Holdings. Panellists Martin Patrick and Abby Cunnane join host Mark Amery to dissect the Adam Art Gallery exhibition Cinema and Painting. From New...

In this final 2013 pod guests Abby Cunnane, Michelle Menzies, Megan Dunn, Martin Patrick and host Mark Amery gather in an Irish pub to discuss the years highlights both in moving image and elsewhere. Artists discussed include Jacqueline Fraser, G. Bridle, Dan Arps, Kushana Bush, Yvonne Todd, Joanna Paul, Julian Dashper, Gavin Hipkins. Exhibitions discussed include Len Lye at City Gallery Wellingto...

This month it's a noisy old pod as host Mark Amery gives two thumbs down to Sound Full at City Gallery Wellington only to be rebutted by guests Martin Patrick and Sophie Jerram; we talk to Dr Max Schleser co-founder of MINA , the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa about their upcoming symposium and mobile technology in contemporary art; then we round off by dialing up Rebecca Hobbs in Auckland whe...

In this CIRCUIT CAST; host Mark Amery talks abut Francis Alÿs' REEL-UNREEL, recently at the Adam Art Gallery and also on the artists website. Guests are Martin Patrick (writer, academic) and Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (artist). Mid-show we cross to Christchurch where Phil Dadson is preparing a new version of his interactive work the Bodytok Quintet. Phil also talks about the aesthetics of early video...

In this months edition of CIRCUIT CAST the pod deliver an extended onsite discussion from the Auckland Art Fair. Host Mark Amery is joined by Andrew Clifford (Curator, Gus Fisher Gallery) and visiting ex-patriate Serena Bentley (Curator, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne). In part 1 the pod discuss the Art Fair's place in the wider art ecology and wonder where are all the dealers this year? In part 2...

In this months CIRCUIT podcast your host Mark Amery welcomes Dick Whyte, who offers a brief and pained shakedown on Warhol at Te Papa before discussing his remake of Pulp Fiction using over 400 You Tube fan videos. Wanganui artist Brit Bunkley talks about embracing digital distribution and a new online service [S]edition which promises Artists video for your smartphone, tablet or TV at a fraction...