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Claus Lucas, Three Studies (2024)
Featured essay
shards from a broken mirror
shards from a broken mirror
Matthew Whiteman mines chance and the unconscious in Claus Lucas' Three Studies (2024), in the first of the Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions for 2025.
Recently added works
Watery Features (2024)
In Watery Features, artists Bena Jackson and Max Fleury traverse the streets and parks of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, photographing the various water flows they come across.
Policy Wonks (trailer) (2025)
A conceptual pseudo-drama that revolves around the Bureau of Advancement, a Los Angeles-based political action group that loves money, guns, and yoga.
Tūhononga (Cluster and Connection) (Part 1) (2024)
The appearances, sensations, and sounds of specific moments and weathers of the environment are recorded by the artist during a hikoi in Te Waipounamu.
Ocean Rain (Part 2) (2023)
Ocean Rain (Part 2) unfolds in a digitally rendered ocean where uncanny geological forms materialise.
Writing & podcast
To cut, stitch, and weave
To cut, stitch, and weave
Thomasin Sleigh stitches material, memory, and meaning in Interlaced: Animation and Textiles at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
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.
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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