CIRCUIT CAST

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. Image courtesy of The Performance Arcade.

http://www.theperformancearcade.com/

CIRCUIT Cast was presented with assistance of Creative New Zealand. Music by Tlaotlon.

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; Did our panellists watch the works all the way through? Should a student show aim to be on the web in perpetuity? Will an online exhibition find an art audience?

Also on this pod - a new theme tune by TLAOTLON.

Image: Lost Content (2014) Jasmine Te Hira. Courtesy of Tautai Pacific Arts Trust

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's fruityness, Robert Leonard at City Gallery 


Part 2: 12:50-26:00 Shannon Te Ao, Freedom Farmers, Wystan Curnow, Has the public programme taken over the exhibition?


Part 3: 26:00-34:30 Thoughts on the Walters Prize and Simon Denny

Image: Collectors Edition (Glitch), Eddie Clemens. Adam Art Gallery, Wellington 2014. Photo by Shaun Waugh

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. Courtesy the artist, Galeria Leme, São Paulo and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Guest Bios:

Dr. Mark Jackson is Associate Professor of Design in the School of Art and Design, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT University, New Zealand. He has published in the fields of design history and theory, the visual arts, film and media as well as architecture and landscape architecture. He has had a number of film and video works exhibited internationally. His current research focus is on ethics and design cultures with particular emphasis on the works of Derrida, Heidegger, Agamben and Levinas.

Ahilapalapa Rands is the outgoing Education Intern at Artspace, a leading contemporary New Zealand gallery located on Karangahape Road in Auckland. In 2013 she co-curated Close To Home, the 6th Tautai Tertiary Exhibition at ST Paul St Gallery with her Mum Melanie Rands followed by her recent curation of Artspace exhibitionW e l co m e in September 2014. Ahi graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT University. During her studies she worked in video and performance installation. Along with Maila Urale, Linda T, and Chris Fitzgerald she is one of the founding members of D.A.N.C.E. art club who have been working together since 2008. Ahi is a fourth generation New Zealander on her father’s side and second on her mother’s side with links to Hawai‘i, Tongareva, Fiji, Samoan, England & Scotland.

http://www.artspace.org.nz/exhibitions/2014/welcome.asp

Dance - http://danceartclub.co.nz/

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: Erdag Aksel's "A Calculated Loss of Memory- Stuttgart" 2014 as part the exhibition "Life of Objects" Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Spring (Northern Hemisphere) 2014)

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 spaces by talking to Henry Davidson about Auckland's Gloria Knight.

Part 1 was recorded at City Gallery Wellington as Part of Tuatara Open Late on Thursday 2 October. This pod was produced with the assistance of Creative New Zealand, with thanks to Tracey Monsatra, Steve McVey, Olivia Lacey and Ann Gale. Music by Orchestra of Spheres.

Image credit: William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time (detail - film still), 2012. A collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison. Five-channel video with sound, 30 min, with megaphones and breathing machine ("Elephant"). State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through the TomorrowFund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2013.

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 installation work Unregistered and Unwarranted to Eyebeam in New York. All that and a few calamitous mis-pronunciations on this months CIRCUIT CAST.

Image: Kim Pieters, Halo (2010), digital video, audio by Edie Stevens, in the exhibition What is a life? Kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery (Photo: Shaun Waugh)