Circuit
Featured work
Bridget Reweti
Like a rock against the tide (2021)
Gentle waves crash against a small rocky island. This work highlights the Māori names and narratives woven through the land.
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).
Garden of Clay (2022)
An artist sculpts clay in their studio while telling stories about their predecessors.
And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree (2022)
An animation of the insects found in the last painting made by Spong's grandfather, the Balinese artist I Gusti Made Rundu. Their swarm imagines ancestry not as linear succession but as an accumulation of energy "charged with potentiality."
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