Video programme notes
CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image
Aotearoa
2026
Curator’s notes to accompany screenings of Navigating Slowly series of film screenings. Programme shown at Gus Fisher Gallery, Blue Oyster Gallery, CIRCUIT Screening Room, and Wairau Māori Art Gallery.
Curated by Noel Meek with support from CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, a screening of eight works by Aotearoa artists made between 2017-23 which seek to choreograph new temporal relations with whenua, whakapapa, and our changing ecological world.
Featuring: Sione Faletau, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Janine Randerson, James Tapsell-Kururangi, Nat Tozer, Noel Meek, Jake Kīanō Skinner, Sriwhana Spong, and Ana Iti.
Navigating Slowly interrogates our relationships with whenua by demonstrating forms of traversal that are slow, that are circuitous or circular, that give still time to place, seeking out new knowledge in the land via reversals, retreats, returns, and hauntings. The programme brings together contemporary artists from Aotearoa who share a meditative approach in their visual practice that runs counter to the accelerated narratives of colonialism and capitalism. The works sit with whenua, telling tales of travel, whakapapa, geology, language, and wairua.
https://www.circuit.org.nz/project/navigating-slowly