CIRCUIT CAST

What’s the difference between a cave in Sydney and the Auckland Art Gallery? Joyce Campbell discusses her Walters prize-nominated project Flightdream and her working relationships with site and technology. Campbell also discusses Te Taniwha, an ongoing photographic project drawing on the mythology, history and ecology of Waikaremoana and its many tributaries and outlets.

Image: Joyce Campbell, Flightdream II (video still) 2016, three-channel HD video installation, 30:00 min looped, colour, sound by Peter Kolovos, text by Mark von Schlegel narrated by Andrew Maxwell, courtesy of the artist and Two Rooms, Auckland, (installation view), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2016.

Could New Zealand’s geographical distance be seen as a strength? Is the rumour more potent than the work? How would reframing conceptualist Julian Dashper as a video artist remap New Zealand’s art history? Ahead of the CIRCUIT symposium Phantom Topologies our curator-at-large George Clark talks with Mark Amery about This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema, a programme curated by George and commissioned by CIRCUIT. Plus he discusses symposium guests Merv Espina, Martha and Jake Atienza, and new models for artist run space in South East Asia.

Jake Atienza and Merv Espina's visit to New Zealand is supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.

How does the method of a works making afford its participants anything? Ahead of his participation in the CIRCUIT Symposium Phantom Topologies we caught up with artist John Vea to discuss translating the stories of others, and hynotising the audience with the mahi (work).

Image: John Vea, 29.09.2009 Tribute to Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga (2013)

In this podcast the panel puzzle over the 'beautiful threads' that interrogate the Adam Art Gallery group show Inhabiting Space but ask 'is that enough?'

Installation view: Sriwhana Spong, The Fourth Notebook, 2015, HD Video, 8mins 36 secs. Courtesy of Michael Lett, Auckland. Dancer Benjamin ord. Commissioned by Carriageworks Sydney. In the exhibition Inhabiting Space at The Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi, Victoria University of Wellington. (photo: Shaun Waugh)

Can an image plane be traversed like the threshold of a building, moving from inside to outside and back again? And if so, what are the effects of this movement? Have our bodies become so used to crossing the image plane that they accept and absorb the shrapnel of this collision? What does this kind of co-existence with images mean for our social relations? Mark Amery talks to Andrew Kennedy, curator of The Non-Living Agent, an installation at Te Tuhi from 11 June 2016 - 24 July 2016 featuring work by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Fr), Dorota Broda (NZ), James Richards (UK), Sorawit Songsataya (NZ).

Image: Sorawit Songsataya, Bronies (2016), Animation 3.13 min, 3D printed vases, images printed on steel

commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland

Photo by Sam Hartnett

As Janet Lilo enjoys her first solo survey show 'Status Update' at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, the artist speaks to Mark Amery about coincidence, accountability and her addiction to a socially-driven practice.

Image: Janet Lilo, Portrait, digital photograph

Ahead of a series of nationwide screenings in July, the pod examine Amanda Newall's The Hoover Diairies, which chronicles the dawn of neo-liberalism in 1980s New Zealand through a series of true and strangely connected events; a murder, a pop concert and the introduction of fishing quotas.

Traces and Transmissions; In this podcast Thomasin Sleigh and Tim Corballis join host Mark Amery to discuss Sonya Lacey's installation Infinitesimals, which taks it's cues from homeopathy, linguistics and material shift.. Recently installed at Massey University's Engine Room and The Physics Room in Christchurch the pod find parallels with modernism, abstraction and much more.

Auckland Art fair returns, so what's new this year? With dozens of exhibitors representing over 200 artists from New Zealand and abroad, the 2016 Auckland Art Fair is an ambitious re-invention. Host Mark Amery chatted with co-director Stephanie Post in the lead up to the first fair in three years.

We have a reality, do we really need another one? On the occasion of his installation lowercase at Starkwhite Gallery, Clinton Watkins discusses the real, the virtual and spinning skulls. Your interviewer is Mark Amery.

Image: Still from mono (2015) Clinton Watkins