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CIRCUIT CAST: The Non-Living Agent

20 Jul 2016
Can an image plane be traversed like the threshold of a building, moving from inside to outside and back again? And if so, what are the effects of this movement?

Can an image plane be traversed like the threshold of a building, moving from inside to outside and back again? And if so, what are the effects of this movement? 

Have our bodies become so used to crossing the image plane that they accept and absorb the shrapnel of this collision?

What does this kind of co-existence with images mean for our social relations?

 

Mark Amery talks to Andrew Kennedy, curator of The Non-Living Agent, an installation at Te Tuhi from 11 June 2016 - 24 July 2016 featuring work by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (Fr), Dorota Broda (NZ), James Richards (UK), Sorawit Songsataya (NZ).

  • Courtesy of CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand

     

CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand is an arts agency which supports New Zealand artists working in the moving image through commissioning of works, distribution, critical review and professional practice initiatives. CIRCUIT is supported by Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand.

CIRCUIT was founded by Mark Williams, who is also Director. The CIRCUIT board includes Christina Barton, Aaron Lister, Andrew Clifford, Thomasin Sleigh, Chelva Khanthan Krpillai.