CIRCUIT cast: Cinema & Painting, Sydney Biennale, and Ken and Flo Jacobs interview

The most recent CIRCUIT (pod-)cast has just been posted online here. For me, the highlight is Mark Amery's interview with filmmakers Ken and Flo Jacobs by telephone from New York. Jacobs' work is now on view at the Adam Art Gallery and will be featured (in 3D!) in a screening later this month in Wellington. Mark also spoke with artist Nathan Gray, who has decided to withdraw from the Sydney Biennale, and with yours truly and curator Abby Cunnane on the topic of the Adam's Cinema and Painting exhibition. I will also be contributing an review of the show to an upcoming issue of the NZ Listener. 

Reposted from CIRCUIT: Andrew Clifford on Julian Dashper

There's a terrific analysis of Julian Dashper's video artworks by Andrew Clifford that Mark Williams posted about a week ago on the CIRCUIT website. An excellent commentary on a still-underrated New Zealand artist. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Julian not long after I relocated to Wellington, and tragically, not long before the artist's death. Julian had made the effort to contact me largely owing to our mutual friend the American art historian David Raskin, who curated a retrospective of the artist's work. I have noticed in the past couple of years how enthusiastically my students have responded to Julian's writings and work and I imagine his influence will extend long into the future, particularly here in New Zealand, and appropriately for an artist who created so many projects that examined notions of both historical influence and temporality.