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In the hushed darkness of an art gallery four people sit and watch two animated swans bend their necks towards each other, forming the shape of a heart.

Installation Shot: Hye Rim Lee, Swan Lake (2025) Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū (2025). 3D animation by Team Swan Lake. Courtesy of the artist and DMC Deborah McCormick Consulting.

Featured review

Hye Rim Lee: Swan Lake

By Hamish Win · November 26, 2025

Hye Rim Lee reimagines the classic 19th century ballet as "an exorcism of controlling forces".

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CIRCUIT is the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New Zealand

Recently added works

A dusky sepia toned image of a buttefly alighting on a hand
SJ Ramir

I Found Water (2023)

An autobiographical film that employs textured video footage, drowned in darkness, to examine deteriorating memories and the nature of their preservation.

I Found Water
Low Tide
Manu Vea

Low Tide (2025)

A contemplation of queer mundanity set in the artists' homes in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Tonga.

Low Tide
Cujo 2
Theo Macdonald

Cujo 2 (2025)

Referencing elements of Stephen KIng's original horror story, Cujo 2 reflects on the artists experience of border security in the Covid 19 era.

Cujo 2
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
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Writing & podcast

Red liquid or blood is wiped from a car windscreen, seen from inside the car

Monstrous, bloodied, and box-dyed

Exhibition review
By Matthew Whiteman · October 30, 2025

Like any horror movie aficionado, Matthew Whiteman finds vulnerability, monstrosity, and cartharsis in The Brood, an exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum that traced a dark sensibility in recent art from Aotearoa.

Monstrous, bloodied, and box-dyed
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
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.

Comic Release: John Vea

CIRCUIT Cast 123
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.

Comic Release John Vea
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News and opportunities

An empty gallery with a board room table. curtains and a view to the street

Welcome to CIRCUIT

November 18, 2025

CIRCUIT announces new premises in Pōneke Wellington

Welcome to CIRCUIT
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