Circuit
![A hand arranges photographs of a house under construction on a large white sheet of paper](/images/1200/images/posts/screenshot-2024-07-31-at-13.44.49.png)
Dieneke Jansen, This Housing Thing (2021)
Featured interview
Art/Action
Art/Action
Artists Dieneke Jansen and Heleyni Pratley discuss using art as a tool for social justice, moderated by Mark Williams and presented at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space in association with the exhibition Homing Instinct.
Recently added works
![Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/953421104.jpg)
Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata (2024)
Antonia van Sitter returns home to Manupirua Bay on the edge of Lake Rotoiti, where her whānau are the kaitiaki of the area’s natural geothermal springs, overlaying footage of the lake with drawings of local pūrākau and the intangible qualities of Māoritanga.
![Empty Vessels](/images/255x165/images/videos/stills/963751627.jpg)
Empty Vessels (2024)
Empty Vessels traces the movement of ships carrying phosphate rock from the Western Sahara to the Otago Peninsula.
Writing & podcast
![A screen plays an underwater image in a darkened room. There are shaped piles of stones in the foreground.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/tia-barrett_install-coco-circuit.jpg)
Hihi Aho: Tia Barrett
Hihi Aho: Tia Barrett
"I see the environment as a creative partner" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Tia Barrett (Waitaha, Ngāti Māmoe, Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Tamainupō, Ngāti Maniapoto), the third and final episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.
![A woman in a sheer veil faces away from the camera; the light is golden. An installation view of a screen in a darkened room.](/images/1050x660/images/posts/a-hook-install.jpeg)
She calls to it with a new name
She calls to it with a new name
Kirsty Baker considers creation, expansion, and the contingencies of mystic Hildegard Von Bingen's Lingua Ignota in Sriwhana Spong's a hook but no fish (2017).
![Close up of thick seaweed in the ocean](/images/1050x660/images/posts/sandy-wakefield-nakunaku-2020.jpeg)
Hihi Aho: Sandy Wakefield
Hihi Aho: Sandy Wakefield
"Whanaungatanga is this gift we have as Māori to connect and to relate" — a kōrero between Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu) and Sandy Wakefield (Ngapuhi, Ngāi Tahu), the second episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Hihi Aho.
News and opportunities
![A split screen each showing two hands bringing together two rocks, against a grassy background](/images/1050x660/images/projects/Noel-Meek-and-Jake-Kiano-Skinner-Two-Stones-2024.jpg)
Jake Kīanō Skinner and Noel Meek at the BFI London Film Festival 2024
Jake Kīanō Skinner (Ngāti Rangitihi, Tūhoe) and Noel Meek's commission Two Stones | Rua Kōhatu (2024) has been selected to screen in this year's BFI London Film Festival