Circuit Cast

Curator George Clark and Writer Martin Patrick discuss Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue, Sol Le Witt's assertion that conceptual artists are not rationalists but mystics, and how we mediate the claims of the internet to represent the world. George Clark is CIRCUIT's 2016 curator at large. Martin Patrick is a writer and academic based in Wellington, NZ. Grosse Fatigue is at City Gallery Wellington until 13 March 2016. Image: Camille Henrot ,Grosse Fatigue, 2013. Courtesy Silex Films and Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris

From moving images to gang portraits to wonky pots; in this podcast our panel consider the most interesting events in the New Zealand art world of 2015. Host Mark Amery is joined by regulars Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh plus newbies Emma Bugden and Reuben Friend.

How do we talk about what can’t be spoken? Thai artist Sutthirat Supaprinya (Som) discusses her recent installation at Toi Pōneke Arts Centre in Wellington entitled STEAL THIS BOOK. Reflecting on censorship, misinformation and buried histories, she talks about art’s role in illuminating the past and present. The WARE (Wellington Artists Residency Exchange) is a collaboration between Wellington City Council and The Asia New Zealand Foundation. atelierorange.info Image: Installation Shot: STEAL THIS BOOK, Sutthirat Supaparinya, Toi Pōneke Arts Centre, 30 October - 14 November 2015

Women appear, but on whose terms? In this recording from the 2015 London Film Festival Lucy Reynolds (artist, writer and Course Leader of MRes Art: Moving Image, Central Saint Martins) chairs a discussion on how women artists are represented in the histories of experimental film. Panellists include Charlotte Procter (Collections Manager of LUX & Member of the Cinenova Working Group), Maud Jacquin (independent scholar and writer) and Mark Williams (Director of CIRCUIT Artists' Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand), and co-curator of the LFF screening Joanna Margaret Paul: I am an open window. Introduction 0 – 4.35 Lucy Reynolds. Quote from Lis Rhodes’ essay Whose History? (1979). Panel Presentations 4.35-13.10 Maud Jacquin on women film-makers working in the London Film-makers Co-Operative from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s; alternative conceptions of the body, subjectivity and history 13.49-27.00 Charlotte Procter on Cinenova; a distribution agency formed in 1991 from merger of two feminist film distribu

What is an artist-run space today? Mark Amery talks to Chloe Geoghegan, Director of Dunedin's Blue Oyster about the evolution of the gallery, her previous role at Dog Park in Christchurch and Dunedin's new City Council-led arts precinct.

On the phone from Sydney, Jae Hoon Lee talks to Mark Amery about showing his work in a hotel at the Spring 1883 art fair, how his practice draws on Eastern spiritual philosophy and his recent residency at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Art vs Architecture? Ego vs Id? In this pod we review Demented Architecture at City Gallery Wellington and discuss whether the show really sets out to show the two disciplines as the best of enemies. Host Mark Amery is joined by regular guests Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh.

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.

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