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Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions 2025
CIRCUIT and Tāhuhu Kōrero Toi Art History at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington invites proposals from students and emerging writers for a new series of writing commissions responding to works for Masons Screen
Recently added works
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."
Trip After (2022)
A travel vlog mapping propagandist cinema screenings in Isan, the north-eastern region of Thailand, during the 1960s.
Writing & podcast
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.
Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Hana Pera Aoake explores the poetic and generative role of whakapapa—a means of creating layers—in Emily Parr's Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla (2021).
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Call for proposals: CIRCUIT Cast 2025
CIRCUIT invites proposals for a podcast series featuring conversations with Aotearoa artists working in the moving image