CIRCUIT CAST

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 constructed by Paul Cullen. 15 single channel video works explore themes including landscapes of perception and cognition, tangible thoughts, altered states, phantom limbs, the wandering mind, TV brains, dream archives, memory files, and the body in movement.

Exhibited until 15 November 2015 at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.

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-image-practice

To register follow this link - http://tinyurl.com/ovmo58f

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, Director of the Audio Foundation (R) Mark Amery

http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/

“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 of the project, links between the historical figures depicted and contemporary culture, and the critical nuances in the work. The making of another video Tai Whetuki/House of Death as a means to work through historical events.

Part 2 (8.30-15.00) Technical challenges and ethical conundrums. Lisa concludes by talking about her digital stills of Captain Cook, Joseph Banks, Omai and Tupaia at the National Portrait Gallery, the revisiting of historical figures and play with gender. “It’s all about representation and ways of looking”.

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.