Navigating Slowly

CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image

Curated by Noel Meek with support from CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, Navigating Slowly is a screening of eight video works by Aotearoa artists using moving images to choreograph new temporal relations with whenua, whakapapa, and our changing ecological world.

Featuring moving image work from: Sione Faletau, Jeremy Leatinu’u, Janine Randerson, James Tapsell-Kururangi, Nat Tozer, Noel Meek, Jake Kīanō Skinner, Sriwhana Spong, and Ana Iti.

The screening will begin at 5.30pm, and afterwards there will be a Q+A with Noel Meek and Blue Oyster Director Piupiu Maya Turei about the programme at 6.30pm.

Noel Meek is an artist and composer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with a practice that explores relations with the more-than-human through time-based works. He says: “This programme gathers together some of my favourite artworks of the last decade, but I hope it also gives the audience a guide to what I see as common features in local moving image works. Whether it’s Jeremy Leatinu’u’s narrative palindrome of language and migration, Nat Tozer’s meditation on manmade geology, James Tapsell-Kururangi’s familial portrait, or Sriwhana Spong’s saturated dream of Tuscany, these works all share a close attention to time and place, a pace that gives us room for considered thought, and a great generosity of beauty and spirit.”

This screening is supported by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, Blue Oyster Art Project Space and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, with funding from Creative New Zealand, Otago Community Trust and the Dunedin City Council.

Screening starts 5.30pm, Friday 6 March. Free – all welcome
Craigs Investment Partners Auditorium

[Image: Sriwhana Spong, Badlands (2023). Courtesy of the artist, Michael Lett and CIRCUIT]