In this episode, we’ll be sharing a recent lecture by Carl Mika, titled Wa and it’s countercolonial possibilities: Implications for the human self. This talk confronts the terms and concepts ‘time and space’ from a Māori philosophical perspective and replaces them with the possibility that all things are in a state of profound Now-ness, which the human self participate in.

In this episode, we’ll be sharing a recent lecture by Balamohan Shingade: Singing with Practical Intent. This lecture was given on the occasion of brunelle dias’ exhibition, the way things are, incorporating a performance of Hindustani music alongside a discussion of the challenges to artmaking in the backdrop of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism).

In this episode, we’ll be sharing a recent lecture titled Beyond Safe White Spaces by Naarm-based artist, writer and curator, Andy Butler. In this lecture, Andy looks at how museums, galleries, and art histories more broadly, are going through processes of cultural upheaval and how we might find moments of optimism, joy, humour and solidarity through art.

First up in this episode, we’ll be sharing an artist talk from our current exhibition, the way things are, by Tāmaki-based painter brunelle dias. Then we’ll share with you a selection of poems by Nicola Farquhar, as part of our latest publication, Heavy trees, arms and legs.

In this episode, Abby Cunnane speaks with Nina Oberg-Humphries about Fibre Gallery, a Moana artists gallery recently opened in Ōtautahi earlier this year. As well as being the co-founder and director of the Tangata Moana Trust, within which the gallery sits, Nina is an artist and a proud alumni of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies Residency Programme.

In this episode, we are sharing two special events, beginning with an artists talk from The moon and the pavement, The Physics Room's current offsite exhibition at Ashburton Art Gallery. Next, we have an essay reading from our new publication Heavy Trees, Arms and Legs by our very own Abby Cunnane. Heavy Trees, Arms and Legs expands upon the offsite exhibition by Nicola Farquhar & Sorawit Songsataya of the same name shown at The Suter Art Gallery in 2021.

In this episode, we are sharing an artist talk by Anchi Lin. Anchi is a performance and new media artist of Taiwanese Indigenous Atayal and Hō-ló descent based in Taipei. Perhaps she comes from/to___Alang was a Physics Room offsite exhibition that ran between the 23rd of June to the 10th July 2022.

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In this episode, we are sharing our recent Wetland Wānanga exploring ngā taonga mahinga kai. Māia Abraham (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngā Rauru) and Maatakiwi Wakefield (Kāi Tahu whānui, Te Ati Awa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa and Ngāti Maniapoto) of the Māori Library Services share their knowledge on mahinga kai and the relationship between Ngāi Tahu and the significant wetlands within the Ōtautahi area.

In this episode, we are sharing a panel discussion from our current exhibition Te Whakawhitinga with artist Jeremy Leatinu’u, cinematographer Ian Powell, and film narrators Hunaara Kaa and Poata Alvie McKree.