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Vailahi Vailahi, Drone footage of Nanumea and Funafuti (2025)
Featured essay
Without Us, There is No Memory
Without Us, There is No Memory
CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist, and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka navigates oceanic storylines in the work of Vailahi Vailahi.
Recently added works
Western Line (2023)
A flickering view of the journey of the Western Line railway as it intersects with the urban fabric of west Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, accompanied by a soundscape composed of field recordings and improvised drone guitar.
Elbow Room (2018)
A portrait in Super 8 of the Modernist architecture of central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland City.
Whakahokia (2025)
A beachside restoration and performance event in which participants removed invasive maram grass from the dunes of Kuku beach.
Ponc Pontio (2025)
A performance in homage to the slate mine workers of Gwynedd, Wales, who helped to found Bangor University, in which the artist carried local slate slabs up the hill to the university.
Writing & podcast
On Wastelands with Brett Graham
On Wastelands with Brett Graham
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.
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Toloa Tales
Toloa Tales
Gloriana Meyers considers the myriad ways that our home shapes our identity in Toloa Tales, an exhibition of two new works by Edith Amituanai and Sione Tuívailala Monū that explore what it means to return to an ancestral homeland.
Yearning for Radiance
Yearning for Radiance
Robyn Maree Pickens unpicks the archival impulse in Radicant, an exhibition by artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux at the Hocken Gallery.
News and opportunities
Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Commissions 2025/26
CIRCUIT invites proposals for the next annual series of artist commissions for Masons Screen