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Kite, Makȟóčhe Kiŋ Oíč’iwa (The Land Paints Itself) (2025). Courtesy of the artist and CIRCUIT
Featured exhibition
Leap to the Place of Two Pools
Leap to the Place of Two Pools presents five new moving image works by artists who resist or relinquish ocularcentrism through multisensorial knowledge systems. With works by Kah Bee Chow, Selina Ershadi, Kite, Sonya Lacey, and James Tapsell-Kururangi.
Recently added works
A well-told lie (2024)
Scenes of a vacant house are overlaid with a narrative that speaks of a misplaced copy of Sri Lankan-Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje’s fictionalised memoir, Running in the Family (1982).
A softer limestone (2023)
A softer limestone centres on Ram Setu, or Adam’s Bridge, a limestone shoal crossing the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. Ram Setu is a unique geological feature and a site of foundational significance to these nations' different religious groups.
Garden of Clay (2022)
An artist sculpts clay in their studio while telling stories about their predecessors.
Writing & podcast
Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa
Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa
In the first of three essays, CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka explores the guiding mātauranga of Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists.
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Homing Instinct: reflections on home, shelter, and belonging
Homing Instinct: reflections on home, shelter, and belonging
Curator Abby Cunnane reflects on understandings of home, shelter, and belonging through the works in the international touring exhibition Homing Instinct.
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
Jane Wallace excavates layers of meaning in the aural and visual registers of the six artists' films shown in the 2024 play_station Film Festival.
News and opportunities
CIRCUIT Artist Survey 2025: Results
Ngā mihi nui to all the artists who responded to our recent Artist Survey. Read on to learn more about the feedback we received