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Five Pasifika males in casual clothing line up against a wall as if in a police line up. One is stepping forward to read from a note in their hand.

John Vea, Is your name Siliga? No? Oh, you’re Pati? (2025)

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Comic Release: John Vea

Hosted by Joe Jowitt · September 17, 2025

“The smile goes away the longer they experience the work” - John Vea discusses how his practice uses humour to draw audiences into deeper conversations around Pasifika identity.

<p>Comic Release: John Vea</p>
CIRCUIT is the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New Zealand

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M.E. Mahoney House
Sophie Bannan

M.E. Mahoney House (2015)

Documentation of a family home designed by architect M.E. Mahoney.

M.E. Mahoney House
The Ballet
Sophie Bannan / Oscar Bannan

The Ballet (2025)

Siblings Sophie and Oscar Bannan re-use existing dance films made of and by the siblings over the past thirty years.

The Ballet
Two people stand on the stairs outside adjacent industrial buildings. Like the buildings the people are dressed in a monochromatic palette. Onscreen text says 'HIS STICK SAYS HE'S BLIND'.
Sophie Bannan

Tsunami Haiku (2016)

Made in Japan following the 2011 tsunami this work uses haiku as a structuring convention to engage with notions of landscape, time and subjectivity.

Tsunami Haiku
Dwelling
Rozana Lee

Dwelling (2018)

Using Indonesian batik textiles, Lee responds to the rhythms of her local environment in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland as well as to her inner world.

Dwelling
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Writing & podcast

A Pacific person in a purple tshirt looks up to the sky, their face is only half in view. The background is blue skies and palm trees.

Low Tide

Exhibition review
By Dilohana Lekamge · September 29, 2025

Dilohanga Lekamge explores the complex interrelation of faith, identity, and queerness in Manu Vaea's Low Tide (2025), a new film that showed at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space earlier this year.

Low Tide
A line of six video screens showing a single massive golden fire in a peat swamp

Sam Tozer on VFX and 'Impossible Lenses' in Brett Graham's Whangamārino

CIRCUIT Cast Episiode #124
Hosted by Kathryn Graham · August 11, 2025

How can artists work with visual effects makers? Kathryn Graham speaks to Sam Tozer about his work on Brett Graham's six channel video work Whangamārino.

Sam Tozer
Brett Graham, Whangamārino (2025), and Wastelands (2024). Installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.

On Wastelands with Brett Graham

CIRCUIT Cast #123
Hosted by Kathryn Graham · July 28, 2025

On peat as palimpsest: Kathryn Graham speaks with artist Brett Graham (Ngāti Korokī Kahukura, Tainui) about his new exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, comprising the monumental sculpture Wastelands (2024) and Whangamārino (2025), a new multi-channel video work.

Wastelands Part 1
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A computer tablet held in front of a sign shows the text 'Fire Hose Reel' augmented with a series of geometric shapes and details

Three new commissions awarded for Masons Screen

News
August 20, 2025

Shannon Novak, Sarah Hudson and Joe Jowitt to make new works

Three new commissions awarded for Masons Screen
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