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Episode 124: Samantha Cheng

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Sometimes even a cup of tea can fail" In a hyper-connected world, Samantha Cheng's durational performances examine failure as a generative space. I...

Episode 123: Comic Release with John Vea

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“The smile goes away the longer they experience the work” - John Vea Comic Release is a three-part podcast series hosted by artist Joe Jowitt whi...

Episode 124: Sam Tozer on Impossible Lenses

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do moving image artists work with visual effects? In this follow up podcast to CIRCUIT Cast 123: Brett Graham, interviewer Kathryn Graham speaks t...

Episode 123: on Wastelands with Brett Graham

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brett Graham's exhibition Wastelands opened at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in June 2025. Featuring a monumental sculpture of the same name that...

Episode 122: Comic Release with Sean Grattan

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"If I didn't laugh, I'd cry." Comic Release is a three-part podcast series hosted by artist Joe Jowitt which explores the use of humour in artists' m...

Episode 121: Nat Tozer

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"There is a vitality that is held in the earth." Artist Nat Tozer and CIRCUIT director Mark Williams talk archaeology, deep time and kaitiakitanga on ...

Episode 120: Hihi Aho with Tia Barrett

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"I see the environment as a creative partner." — Tia Barrett Hihi Aho is a three-part podcast series hosted by Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu). Hihi Aho (r...

Episode 119: Hihi Aho with Sandy Wakefield

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Whanaungatanga is this gift we have as Māori to connect and to relate" Hihi Aho is a three-part podcast series hosted by Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu). ...

Episode 118: Hihi Aho with Tanya Ruka

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hihi Aho is a three-part podcast series hosted by Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu). Hihi Aho (ray of light) unfolds from Rematriation, a new screening programm...

Episode 117: Wild Wild Life

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How is Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland City described outside of official city maps? Is it possible to navigate off-road, off-grid? What discrete spaces exi...

Episode 116: Sites of Connection with Hana Pera Aoake

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In part 3 of the series Sites of Connection Dani McIntosh speaks to artist Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Haua, Tainui/Waika...

Episode 115: Sites of Connection with Selina Ershadi

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

"Dwelling in the void space" — a conversation between Selina Ershadi and Dani McIntosh, the second part of the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connecti...

Episode 114: Sites of Connection with James Tapsell Kururangi

06 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation between artists James Tapsell-Kururangi and Dani McIntosh on the metaphoric and poetic potential of the moving image.

Episode 113: What sparks the words?

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art beyond the ess...

Episode 112: Maggie Buxton On BIOS

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can artists in the regions discover and experiment with emergent technologies? In this pod host Mark Williams speaks to Maggie Buxton, the Direct...

Episode 111: Leala Faleseuga - Visceral Motherhood

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this pod Horowhenua-based artist Leala Faelseuga speaks to Mark Williams about her new work Vessel: Dissolution | It's in the milk. Commissioned f...

Episode 110: 2022 in review

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The air was sucked out of the room". In this final podcast for 2022 we discuss the year that was with artist Judy Darragh, Gloriana Meyers (TAUTAI)...

Episode 108: Art, Authorship & Reuse

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sampling, reuse and copying have long been strategies and approaches in artistic practice and is a thread you can follow through art history. But who ...

Episode 109: The DNA Of Film - Nova Paul, Jamie Berry, Jae Hoon Lee

29 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation host Mark Williams meets three artists who discuss the intersection of filmic technologies with living world of mauri, whakapapa ...

Episode 107: Legacies - May Adadol Ingawanij and Ukrit Sa-nguanhai

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"What are the legacies that make us who we are?" In this pod we discuss Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 programme of artist cinema commissions; featuring ne...

Episode 106: Otherwise-image-worlds

21 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Curator Tendai Mutambu talks to Sorawit Songsataya and Ary Jansen about their works in Otherwise-image-worlds, a group exhibition presented by CIRCUIT...

Episode 104: Sione Faletau

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sione Faletau discusses his practice of translating the traditional Tongan practice of kupesi (patterns) into digital video, using site-specific audio...

Episode 105: Sandy Gibbs

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sandy Gibbs speaks to Thomasin Sleigh about a new body of work made over six years in response to the 1968 Olympics, a project made between Aotearoa, ...

Episode 103: Remco De Blaaij, Ex-post and ARTSPACE

16 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this pod Artspace Aotearoa director Remco de Blaaij discusses his final curatorial project at the gallery, Ex-post, a follow up to his 2017 exhibit...

Episode 102

07 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“We've needed our artists this year  more than ever, to fall into other ways of seeing reality" - Nigel Borell What was 2021? Host Robbie Handcoc...

Episode 101: Tendai Mutambu, Serena Bentley, Lisa Berndt

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Artists Moving Image in the pandemic era; a glut of compromise or new horizons for exhibition and accessibility? Three curators and arts professionals...

Episode 100: Yona Lee, Gavin Hipkins, Amy Howden-Chapman

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this edition of CIRCUIT Cast host Thomasin Sleigh meets artists Yona Lee, Amy Howden-Chapman and Gavin Hipkins. The advent of the pandemic has seen...

Episode 99: Christopher Ulutupu

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“People who are trying to oppress you hate the fact you’re having an awesome time” - Christopher Ulutupu In this pod host Robbie Handcock speak...

Episode 98: Stephanie Beth And Emma Fitts

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“ .. it was really important to go for the silent woman” – Stephanie Beth In this podcast Thomasin Sleigh meets pioneering feminist film-maker ...

Episode 97: Steve Carr And Christian Lamont

06 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this pod Thomasin Sleigh speaks to Steve Carr and Christian Lamont about Fading to the Sky at Auckland's Te Uru Gallery, an exhibition that began a...

Episode 96: Not Today… Can you decolonise an art gallery?

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

“I can only speak from my aspiration of how I want to see the world and the art institution that I want to be involved in” - Nigel Borrell What i...

Episode 95: Connor Fitzgerald and Xi Li

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this podcast Moya Lawson speaks to Xi Li and Connor Fitzgerald, two emerging artists working in digital space via avatars, text and interactivity. ...

CIRCUIT Cast 94: Popular Glory Episode 3: Neihana Gordon-Stables and Daniel Sanders

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the third part of our podcast series Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image, host Robbie Handcock speaks to Neihana Gordon-Sta...

Episode 93: Alex Monteith

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

“I was thinking about what you think is knowledge, what you find out through machinery, and what you find out through attending to things that you s...

Episode 92: Rangituhia Hollis

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"I identified with the lion... I liked the idea of killing the King" In this podcast Israel Randell talks to Rangituhia Hollis about his CIRCUIT Arti...

Episode 91: Martin Awa Clark Langdon, Rebecca Hobbs, Qiane Matata-Sipu

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"What's good for Māori is good for everyone" - Qiane Matata-Sipu How do Māori and Pākeha relate to, and value whenua? What are their differing val...

Episode 90: Laura Duffy And Aliyah Winter

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the second part of our podcast series Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image, host Robbie Handcock speaks to Laura Duffy and Al...

Episode 88: Revisiting HADHAD Part 3: The schism of Liberalism

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Revisiting HADHAD - Part 3: The schism of Liberalism In Part 3 of this conversation Sean Grattan and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió discuss HADHAD as a v...

Episode 88: Revisiting HADHAD - Part 2: Language, Technology and Totalitarianism

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Part 2 of this conversation Sean Grattan and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió discuss language, technology and post-humanism in HADHAD. They explore the ...

Episode 88: Revisiting HADHAD part 1: Shooting the film, Horror as genre

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In Part 1 of this 3 part conversation Sean Grattan and Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió discuss the making of HADHAD, the relationship with the Horror genre...

Episode 87: an interview with M D Brown

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this interview film-maker M D Brown discusses three short films he made between 2000-2004 inspired by the stream of consciousness technique of mode...

Episode 89: Zack Steiner-Fox in conversation with Robbie Handcock

29 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image is a new four-part podcast series hosted by Pōneke artist Robbie Handcock, in which he int...

Episode 86: Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon

30 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this pod Moya Lawson speaks with Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon; two artists currently exhibiting public artworks...

Episode 85: Never Waste A Crisis - a conversation with Judy Darragh, Ary Jansen, Lisa Reihana

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In moments of change there is a window to act. How do we organise our politics around the new situation? How do we organise our institutions? What rol...

Episode 84: an interview with Darcell Apelu

20 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is time out the most productive time of all? Darcell Apelu talks to Mark Williams about a recent residency in Yorkshire spent contemplating her prac...

Episode 83 An Interview With John Walter

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"(HIV) doesn’t have agency, it’s not alive like we are, it’s just a piece of programming, but.. in empathising with it, I have gained a greater ...

Episode 82: 2019 in review

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this CIRCUIT Cast 2019 review we welcome Becky Hemus (Writer), Remco de Blaaij (Director, Artspace Aotearoa), Judy Darragh (artist) and Lucinda Ben...

Episode 81 Tanu Gago

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“I’m interested in what Pacific work looks like situated in a lens of popular culture” - Tanu Gago Savage in the Garden is a new work by Tanu G...

Episode 80: An interview with Chevron Hassett

25 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On the phone from Sydney Chevron Hassett talks to Mark Amery about Mauri Tū, The First Breath of Light (2019) showing as part of Home Movies, this Sa...

Episode 79 Serena Bentley

18 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"A lot of confessions we make are performative" - Serena Bentley In this podcast Melbourne-based curator Serena Bentley talks to Mark Amery about Per...

Episode 78: an interview with Alex Monteith

02 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"There's always the question of authoring ... I like the shared space of co-production" - Alex Monteith In this career-spanning interview with Mark ...

Episode 77: New strategies for Auckland Galleries

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A new roundtable podcast brings together three Auckland gallery directors; Gabriela Salgado (Te Tuhi), Lisa Beauchamp (Gus Fisher) and Charlotte Huddl...

Episode 76: Auckland Art Fair 2019

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From 30 April-4 May 2019 the Auckland Art Fair expects up to 10,000 people through its doors. What's showing? Who is it for? How does an event like th...

Episode 75: An interview with Peter Wareing

17 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Wareing is a New Zealand artist who has spent most of the past 30 years working in the USA and now in the UK. His exhibition Suspended Agency at...

Episode 74: An interview with Luke Fowler

20 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

“the problem is with bureaucrats who are preventing us from seeing the content” - Luke Fowler Recently in Wellington for the opening of the Adam ...

Episode 73: Complicated Love - 2018 in review (part 1 Of 2)

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this end of year podcast panellists Heather Galbraith, Shannon Te Ao, Simon Gennard join host Mark Amery to discuss the highs and lows of 2018, cha...

Episode 73: Complicated Love - 2018 in review (part 2 Of 2)

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In this end of year podcast panellists Heather Galbraith, Shannon Te Ao, Simon Gennard join host Mark Amery to discuss the highs and lows of 2018, cha...

CIRCUIT Cast re-post: George Clark on This is not film-making

10 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"The most interesting way to follow an artist is to do the opposite of what they did" This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema was our 2016 ...

Artists in Conversation #6 - Vea Mafile'o and Jeremy Leatinu'u

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“What is true to you may not be true to your neighbour.” -Vea Mafile`o Ahead of the premiere of Truth or Consequences, CIRCUIT’s 2018 programme...

Episode 72: An interview with Johan Grimonprez

17 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“The terrorist spectacle accommodates a dirtier game underneath” - Johan Grimonprez. On his 24 hour trip to Wellington, New Zealand we caught up B...

Artists in Conversation #5: Stella Brennan & Sean Cubitt

13 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“There's something inevitably fascistic about a perfect world” - Stella Brennan. UK academic Sean Cubitt joins Stella Brennan and host Mark Amery ...

Artists in Conversation #4 - Sonya Lacey & Gavin Hipkins

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“If the essay film has become a trope…and these strategies that we’re using have become formulaic, how do we negotiate our way through that?” ...

Artists In Conversation #3 - Marie Shannon and Megan Dunn

14 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"It's about bringing the conversation into the stuff people don't bother talking about" - Marie Shannon In this pod, host Thomasin Sleigh welcomes Ma...

Artists In Conversation #2 - Sorawit Songsataya and Bridget Riggir-Cuddy

23 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

“I would like to see thinking understood as a materiality.” - Bridget Riggir-Cuddy On the occasion of the exhibition Starling recently installed ...

Artists In Conversation #1 - Phil Dadson and Sean Kerr

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"It doesn't matter if you're in a bloody gallery or not as long as you're making stuff" - Phil Dadson In the first episode of our new long-form podca...

Episode 71: 2017 End of Year wrap-up

11 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

For our 2017 recap, host Mark Amery is joined by Cameron Ah Loo Matamua, Abby Cunnane and Judy Darragh. Topics covered include; powerful women, genera...

Episode 70: PULSE/REPEAT, an interview with Priscilla Howe

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How does the body absorb the pulse of technology? What connects the mechanical and the breath? This week on CIRCUIT Cast, host Mark Amery talks to CIR...

Episode 69: Alexandre Larose

22 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"The film strip is a body acquiring memory". Ahead of group show PULSE / REPEAT at The Audio Foundation, Montreal film-maker Alexandre Larose discusse...

CIRCUIT Cast Episode 68: Tautai Pacific Arts / Christina Jeffery interview

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What are the challenges and opportunities facing Pacific artists in New Zealand today? The Director of the Tautai Pacific Arts Trust Christina Jeffery...

Episode 67: an interview with Mercedes Vicente

17 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

On the phone from London, Mercedes Vicente discusses the curatorial process behind Thick Cinema, CIRCUIT's 2017 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions...

Episode 66: Sam Hamilton

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In a CIRCUIT first, this pod takes place from the set of Sam Hamilton's new film. Phoning in from Portland Oregon, Sam talks to host Mark Amery about ...

Episode 65: Fiona Amundsen

10 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Amundsen talks to Mark Amery about the forthcoming premiere of her CIRCUIT Artist Cinema commission 'A body that lives' which examines the 1944 ...

Episode 64: Acting Out

07 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In this pod Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and host Mark Amery discuss Acting Out, an Adam Art Gallery survey of New Zealand and international artist...

Episode 63: Trudy Lane's Sunroom

28 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by the simple realisation that all energy for life on Earth comes from the Sun, Trudy Lane’s Sunroom is an installation that stretches to e...

Episode 62: Michael Nicholson

29 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"One thing has led to another..." On the release of a career spanning book, 101 year old artist Michael Nicholson talks to Mark Amery about art, the p...

Episode 61: Common Ground with Mairi Gunn

17 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do we fill in the blanks of our own histories? This week on the podcast we speak with Mairi Gunn about moving from a career in the film industry t...

Episode 60: Cushla Donaldson's The Fairy Falls

20 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

“Is it possible for the Romantic to exceed the rational without eliminating it?” Cushla Donaldson talks Mark Amery through the exhibition The Fair...

Episode 59: Jem Noble's Dream Dialects

04 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

"How does entanglement in the technical circuits of ‘progress’ shape not just dreams, but the capacity to dream?" In this pod guests Judy Darragh ...

Episode 58: Māoriland Film Festival - interview with Tainui Stephens

15 Mar 2017

Contributed by Lukas

“How does your native soul inform your work?” This week on the podcast, host Mark Amery sits down with broadcasting legend Tainui Stephens at the ...

Episode 57: Trust Us Contemporary Art Trust

13 Feb 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do you make art? What does it smell like? Does it fit in a paddling pool? Our first pod of 2017 sees Mark Amery in conversation with RIFF RAFF aka Li-...

Episode 56: 2016 wrap up

20 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do we create indigenous spaces in our institutions? Our 2016 end of year pod took place immediately after a wānanga on curating indigenous art at...

Episode 55: Mike Heynes and Masons Screen

11 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Location!… location? Mike Heynes' new commission for Masons Screen addresses one of the most urgent issues for many New Zealanders, housing affordab...

Episode 54: John Ward Knox

09 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How do we attribute value? On the 50th anniversary of the Frances Hodgkins residency in Dunedin 2015 fellow John Ward Knox talks to Mark Amery about a...

Episode 53: MEANWHILE Gallery

27 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Why start a gallery in 2017? Who needs a physical space? Artists Jordana Bragg and Callum Devlin talk about MEANWHILE, one of a handful of recently e...

Episode 52: Coastline Paradox – Josette Chiang

21 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“...avoid the Pakeha books on Maori mythology … take a look in the kids’ section instead.” How to respond to a place that is not your own? Hon...

Episode 51: Joyce Campbell

29 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

What’s the difference between a cave in Sydney and the Auckland Art Gallery? Joyce Campbell discusses her Walters prize-nominated project Flightdrea...

Episode 50: George Clark on Phantom Topologies

29 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Could New Zealand’s geographical distance be seen as a strength? Is the rumour more potent than the work? How would reframing conceptualist Julian D...

Episode 49: John Vea

22 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does the method of a works making afford its participants anything? Ahead of his participation in the CIRCUIT Symposium Phantom Topologies we caug...

Episode 48: Inhabiting Space

02 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode 47: The Non-Living Agent

19 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 thi...

Episode 46: Janet Lilo

11 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

As Janet Lilo enjoys her first solo survey show 'Status Update' at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, the artist speaks to Mark Amery about coinci...

Episode 45: The Hoover Diaries

01 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 44: Sonya Lacey's Infinitesimals

31 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Traces and Transmissions; In this podcast Thomasin Sleigh and Tim Corballis join host Mark Amery to discuss Sonya Lacey's installation Infinitesimals,...

Episode 43: Auckland Art Fair

17 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

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 Auck...

Episode 42: An interview with Clinton Watkins

09 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

We have a reality, do we really need another one? On the occasion of his installation lowercase at Starkwhite Gallery, Clinton Watkins discusses the r...

Episode 41: An interview with Yuki Kihara

18 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Yuki Kihara leads Mark Amery on a walkthrough of her exhibition ‘A Study of a Samoan Savage’ at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. Examining h...

Episode 40: River of Fundament

11 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Cinema of splendour or 'be-numbed ego-centrism'? Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and Mark Amery review Matthew Barney's epic cine-opera River of Funda...

Episode 39: Angela Tiatia survey at Māngere Arts Centre

17 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

How does a gallery best serve it’s public? How does a gallery best serve an artist? In this podcast Ema Tavola, Judy Darragh and host Mark Amery fin...

Episode 38: Camille Henrot and high-tech Primitivism

24 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Curator George Clark and Writer Martin Patrick discuss Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue, Sol Le Witt's assertion that conceptual artists are not ration...

Episode 37: Best of 2015

16 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 201...