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Hi Everyone, and Welcome to The Franchise Life Channel! Welcome to another exciting episode of The Franchise Life with your host, Stacie Shannon! In this episode, Stacie sits down with Mark Amery, founder of Puddle Pool Services, to discuss the remarkable journey of building a franchise brand from the ground up. Mark shares his fascinating story, starting with his first entrepreneurial venture at age 13, his transition into the franchise world, and his creation of Puddle Pool Services, a leader in residential and commercial pool maintenance. Discover how Puddle Pool Services has disrupted the pool industry with its zero-overhead, home-based business model and unique approach to technician training. Mark reveals the secrets behind their success, including their innovative use of technology, industry-leading support systems, and a focus on customer service. Learn how franchise partners can achieve a 28% net margin, leverage their in-house marketing and operations support, and scale their business to meet the demands of both residential and commercial clients. Whether you're interested in starting a franchise, exploring the benefits of recurring revenue models, or just curious about the inner workings of a recession-resistant business, this episode is packed with valuable insights. Mark also dives into the challenges and rewards of seasonal markets, the power of strong vendor partnerships, and the importance of a hands-on leadership team. If you're considering investing in a franchise that combines essential services, high margins, and the flexibility of a home-based business, this is the episode for you. Please visit my website to get more information: https://fusionfranchising.com/
Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery at Pukenamu Queen's Park in the centre of Whanganui is one of New Zealand's oldest purpose-built galleries. It first opened in 1919 and houses a nationally significant collection. The historic home has been closed for the past decade due to an extensive 70 million dollar redevelopment, but is reopening to the public this morning. The gallery contains more than 9000 items, made up of approximately 8000 artworks and many archival materials. Co-host of RNZ's Culture 101 Mark Amery tells Susie what's been happening at the dawn ceremony.
A leading New Zealand public art gallery may have to temporarily close due to construction work. Wellington's City Gallery will have its main access shut off in June when demolition of the earthquake-damaged civic administration building closes the main entrance to Civic Square. Diana Marsh, chief executive of Experience Wellington which manages the gallery, says the gallery is "exploring alternative venues". She declined our invitation to come on the show Thursday morning. RNZ's Culture 101 presenter Mark Amery spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
We're in the thick of arts festival season in Aotearoa with the Auckland Arts festival next week joining Poneke's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts and Hamilton Arts Festival, alongside numerous bustling Fringes. Our arts reporter, cohost of RNZ National's Culture 101 Mark Amery has been out and about in Wellington all week and is in to report on how the festival is going. Amery spoke to Corin Dann.
It's a time of year to relish for lovers of art and culture. Friday sees the opening of both the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington and the Hamilton Arts Festival. And numerous bustling fringe and other arts festivals have already opened across the motu. RNZ arts correspondent and Culture 101 co-host Mark Amery spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events
Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events
Do you want to unlock the secrets of business growth and franchise success? Today on Start With a Win, host Adam Contos delves into the fascinating journey of his guest Mark Amery, a franchise industry veteran with a remarkable career spanning 15 years. Learn how his strategic vision catapulted Puddle Pool Services to new heights in both Canada and the US.Explore Mark's insights into the delicate balance between owner-operator and executive models in franchising, and how he's developed a unique culture that fosters organic growth for franchisees. Dive into the weekly accountability process, where franchise partners set and chase their own goals, ensuring their personal and professional development. As Mark shares his passion for business and franchise growth, you'll witness a journey filled with real conversations, genuine relationships, and a commitment to building success from the ground up. Don't miss this podcast episode; it's a treasure trove of wisdom for entrepreneurs and business enthusiasts alike.Mark Amery is a “Vancouver Boy” raised on the West Coast of BC. Married and a father of five girls. He has been in the franchise industry for 15 years, a serial entrepreneur and franchising expert who has created and developed multiple home service brands, such as Puddle Pool Services and Toodaloo Pest Control. He is the founder and CEO of Puddle Pool Services, a company that has revolutionized the pool maintenance industry with a professional, modern, and technical approach. With locations across Canada and the US, Puddle Pool Services offers its clients top-notch service with an "all in" price structure, e-reports, and a smart phone app.01:55 Appreciated the franchise model04:55 Executive model07:20 Awarded not purchased08:30 GSR, every week!11:15 Most small businesses fail because of this14:40 Who makes who happy?17:18 Be honest, be real20:55 Grab life by the cannon balls??22:31 Key tip(s) to succeed!⚡️FREE RESOURCE:
One of New Zealand's best-known art collectors, businessmen, and philanthropists, Sir James Wallace, has been named as the "prominent businessman" jailed for indecently assaulting three young men. Wallace had been granted name suppression while his case ran through the courts, but that lapsed yesterday with a final judgment by the Supreme Court. Arts commentator and journalist Mark Amery spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
Joining me today is Mark AmeryMark is also the Founder of Feels Like Friday Service Brands, parent company to multiple Home Service Brands including, Toodaloo Pest Control and Puddle Pool Services which we are discussing today. Puddle Pool Services has taken an industry in dire need of a clean up and streamlined it with a professional, modern, and technical approach.The Puddle Brand allows all their Franchise Partners the ability to run their entire business from their smart phone with Puddle's in-house app. All of their clients receive top notch service with their "All In" price structure so there are no hidden fees. Their E-Reports have all of the service details, real time photos and GPS location trackers that give their clients the service they have never dreamed of having.I hope you enjoy today's discussion with Mark Amery from Puddle Pool Services. Remember….. Grab Life by the Cannonballs!
Arts commentator Mark Amery talks with Kathryn about examples of regional galleries leading the artworld from the edge. He's been at the Taupo Museum for an exhibition of abstract work by Sophie Saunders and Lisa Call. He'll also discuss an exhibition of Ayesha Green's work at the Tauranga Art Gallery. He's also a fan of Sumer - the commercial gallery in Tauranga, exhibiting Hikalu Clarke, which he says proves even edgy art dealers can survive "out in the provinces".
In a month of protests, pandemic panic, grave unrest in the Ukraine and extreme weather events Mark Amery champions some art in Wellington that offers flowers, hugs, sunshine and togetherness. Featured is Salli Culy's paintings Hello to Everybody in a series of lightboxes in Courtenay Place (till May 25), Hanna Shim's exhibition at Enjoy Gallery (till March 30) Wishing You Well. Mark also does shout outs to Vincents Art Workshops in Wellington and the Paraparaumu-shot feature film by Linda Niccol, Poppy, currently streaming through TVNZ.
In our look at the visual arts today Mark Amery is in Wellington and has been at the extraordinary Hilma af Klint exhibition at City Gallery Wellington, where he also looks at the moon drawings of Rita Angus and some fascinating creative responses to them by two contemporary artists in collaboration: Seraphine Pick and Andrew Beck. Rita Angus herself is the subject of a major exhibition opening at Te Papa December 18, leading Mark to ask where all the major survey shows of other New Zealand artists in Wellington have gone.
In our look at the visual arts today Mark Amery is in Wellington and has been at the extraordinary Hilma af Klint exhibition at City Gallery Wellington, where he also looks at the moon drawings of Rita Angus and some fascinating creative responses to them by two contemporary artists in collaboration: Seraphine Pick and Andrew Beck. Rita Angus herself is the subject of a major exhibition opening at Te Papa December 18, leading Mark to ask where all the major survey shows of other New Zealand artists in Wellington have gone.
Mark Amery heads to Gore, Foxton and Whanganui to consider how visionary individuals in some of our smaller but rich historical centres are bringing art and heritage together to maintain their towns' identity post-industry and their futures as dynamic visitor destinations.
Mark Amery heads to Gore, Foxton and Whanganui to consider how visionary individuals in some of our smaller but rich historical centres are bringing art and heritage together to maintain their towns' identity post-industry and their futures as dynamic visitor destinations.
It’s Matariki, a time of reflection and Mark has been reflecting on the presence of Toi Maori - MÄori art at this time and how it is reaching out more into the public space ahead of next year’s first official public Matariki holiday. He's in the Te Whanganui a Tara region considering an exhibition of weaving and painting in a bank in Paraparaumu - Tiaho Mai - the work Matariki festival work of Otaki’s MÄoriland and an exhibition by three Xoë Hall, Miriama Grace Smith and Gina Kiel, who go under the collective name of the Dream Girls Collective at Hunters and Collectors in Wellington. Tiaho Mai, Creative KÄpiti Gallery, Kiwibank, Coastlands Mall, Paraparaumu until 6 August Exquisite Kaitiaki, Hunters and Collectors until August 6 Whakahoki Keri-Mei Zagrobelna Te Aro Lightboxes, Wellington till 26th September
It’s Matariki, a time of reflection and Mark has been reflecting on the presence of Toi Maori - MÄori art at this time and how it is reaching out more into the public space ahead of next year’s first official public Matariki holiday. He's in the Te Whanganui a Tara region considering an exhibition of weaving and painting in a bank in Paraparaumu - Tiaho Mai - the work Matariki festival work of Otaki’s MÄoriland and an exhibition by three Xoë Hall, Miriama Grace Smith and Gina Kiel, who go under the collective name of the Dream Girls Collective at Hunters and Collectors in Wellington. Tiaho Mai, Creative KÄpiti Gallery, Kiwibank, Coastlands Mall, Paraparaumu until 6 August Exquisite Kaitiaki, Hunters and Collectors until August 6 Whakahoki Keri-Mei Zagrobelna Te Aro Lightboxes, Wellington till 26th September
Mark joins Kathryn to talk about this week's announcement City Gallery in Wellington will host a major exhibition of the work of Swedish modern artist, Hilma af Klint. He also looks at the work of a different sort of 20th century icon at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery - painter Peter McIntyre - and a pairing of his work with photographer daughter Sara. Then it’s off briefly to City Gallery Wellington for a whole exhibition reappraising art history, where art history itself is the subject of a host of New Zealand and international artists' work - the perfect palette cleanser for Hilma af Klint. Every Artist is on at City Gallery until the 5th of July. KÄkahi: Peter and Sara McIntyre runs at the NZ Portrait Gallery until the 16th of May.
Mark joins Kathryn to talk about this week's announcement City Gallery in Wellington will host a major exhibition of the work of Swedish modern artist, Hilma af Klint. He also looks at the work of a different sort of 20th century icon at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery - painter Peter McIntyre - and a pairing of his work with photographer daughter Sara. Then it’s off briefly to City Gallery Wellington for a whole exhibition reappraising art history, where art history itself is the subject of a host of New Zealand and international artists' work - the perfect palette cleanser for Hilma af Klint. Every Artist is on at City Gallery until the 5th of July. KÄkahi: Peter and Sara McIntyre runs at the NZ Portrait Gallery until the 16th of May.
The vinyl fair, running 12noon to 3pm, and free to attend, features both stalls from visiting vinyl junkies and many records donated by the community to support the radio station, which features over 35 locally hosted radio shows and an active Paekakariki School radio programme, running from the school's former dental clinic. For entertainment the station's DJs will be spinning discs all afternoon and into the night. We're joined by organisers Pat McIntosh and Mark Amery.
This week in the arts with Mark Amery we pay tribute to Lyttleton artist Bill Hammond, look at a small book about small book publishing in New Zealand and an exhibition that focuses on the smallest and biggest things in the world all at once: Zac Langdon-Pole's exhibition Containing Multitudes, which is at City Gallery Wellington until 7 March.
This week in the arts with Mark Amery we pay tribute to Lyttleton artist Bill Hammond, look at a small book about small book publishing in New Zealand and an exhibition that focuses on the smallest and biggest things in the world all at once: Zac Langdon-Pole's exhibition Containing Multitudes, which is at City Gallery Wellington until 7 March.
This week in our visual arts slot Mark Amery looks at three rather unusual, truly diverse and ambitious art projects borne of, or reflecting the conditions, that lockdown and Covid19 have placed on artists - the mobile Nomadic Art Gallery, the Shared Lines project Pūtahitanga and the Aotearoa Poster Competition.
This week in our visual arts slot Mark Amery looks at three rather unusual, truly diverse and ambitious art projects borne of, or reflecting the conditions, that lockdown and Covid19 have placed on artists - the mobile Nomadic Art Gallery, the Shared Lines project Pūtahitanga and the Aotearoa Poster Competition.
Arts correspondent Mark Amery travels to the Bay of Plenty for Matariki. First to Whakatane and then to Tauranga for some exciting contemporary Maori exhibitions. Pictured in the gallery below is quilt work of Maungarongo Te Kawa at Te Koputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatane Library and Exhibition Centre. Te Kawa is currently artist in resident at Stitch o Mat in New brighton Christchurch where he is leading the creation of a giant community quilt.
This week Mark Amery focuses on the reopening of our galleries and museums at level 2 and how they have fared closed - in particular a project that has seen five artists commissioned to create new video works from the bubbles about social distance by Christchurch Art Gallery, Spheres. It includes a pretty hilarious solo rework in isolation of iconic 80s teen flick The Breakfast Club by the artist behind the notorious giant hand sculpture 'Quasi', Ronnie van Hout.
“I’m interested in what Pacific work looks like situated in a lens of popular culture” - Tanu Gago Savage in the Garden is a new work by Tanu Gago, currently showing as part of Personal Space, CIRCUIT’s 2019 Artist Cinema Commissions, curated by Serena Bentley. Here Tanu talks to Mark Amery about a practice based on countering false narratives of Pasifika masculinity and overcoming cultural dislocation to build communities at home and internationally. Apologies for the quality of the audio for the first 4 minutes of this recording.
On the phone from Sydney Chevron Hassett talks to Mark Amery about Mauri Tū, The First Breath of Light (2019) showing as part of Home Movies, this Saturday 28 September 10am-4pm in Wellington. The work visualises the sunrise over Te Moana Nui a Kiwi (The Pacific Ocean) at Rangitikuia, East Cape just North of Gisborne, into the lands of the Ngāti Porou. Hassett describes the video as "a continuous loop in a poetic repetition, like a series of kowhaiwhai designs scrolling the roof the wharenui, intricately expressing sacred narratives of the Ngāti Porou...The light englightens you of the past, as the warmth connects us to the past and the waves prepare you for the future." Still from Mauri Tū, The First Breath of Light (2019) from the series The Children of Māui
"A lot of confessions we make are performative" - Serena Bentley In this podcast Melbourne-based curator Serena Bentley talks to Mark Amery about Personal Space, CIRCUIT's 2019 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions. Personal Space features new works by Natasha Matila-Smith, Campbell Patterson, Janet Lilo, Tanu Gago and Atong Atem. Each artist was asked by Bentley to make a short film which responded to the questions 'What do we call 'home'? What are our shared values? What does home look like?' 'Personal Space' premieres 6.30pm, Friday 4 October at the Newtown Community Centre, Wellington. Free Admission. More info: http://www.circuit.org.nz/project/personal-space-circuit-artist-cinema-commissions-2019
In this end of year podcast panellists Heather Galbraith, Shannon Te Ao, Simon Gennard join host Mark Amery to discuss the highs and lows of 2018, charting shifting tides, the artworld's 'Complicated Love', and a year of diverse perspectives moving to the centre. Part 1: Personal Highlights of 2018, Trends of the year, Best show. Part 2: Biggest surprises, Best publication, Best writing, Best moving image work Image: Still from Ziarah (2018) Bridget Reweti. Commissioned by CIRCUIT with the support of Creative New Zealand
In this end of year podcast panellists Heather Galbraith, Shannon Te Ao, Simon Gennard join host Mark Amery to discuss the highs and lows of 2018, charting shifting tides, the artworld's 'Complicated Love', and a year of diverse perspectives moving to the centre. Part 1: Personal Highlights of 2018, Trends of the year, Best show. Part 2: Biggest surprises, Best publication, Best writing, Best moving image work Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/circuit-2/2018-eoy-part-2-of-2?in=circuit-2/ Image: Still from Ziarah (2018) Bridget Reweti. Commissioned by CIRCUIT with the support of Creative New Zealand
“There's something inevitably fascistic about a perfect world” - Stella Brennan. UK academic Sean Cubitt joins Stella Brennan and host Mark Amery to discuss 'Object Permanence', Stella's new solo show at Trish Clark gallery, plus technological utopias and making dialogue with the non-human.
“If the essay film has become a trope…and these strategies that we’re using have become formulaic, how do we negotiate our way through that?” - Gavin Hipkins. In the fourth of our conversation series artists Sonya Lacey and Gavin Hipkins come together to discuss working methodologies, a shared interest in failed modernist utopias, and the moving image as a distribution mode of sculpture. Hosted by Mark Amery. Points of Discussion: 00:00: Introductions 1:00 SL: on recent residency in Singapore researching Cambodian print cultures 2:30 GH: on recent survey at Dowse Art Museum, and sequel to The Homely at City Gallery Wellington, discusses spending time with the work whilst ‘in exhibition form’ 3:55 GH: on shift from photography to film, formal and thematic synergies between the two mediums 6.00 SL: on making moving images from a design and sculpture background. Discusses the making of Newspaper for Vignelli (2015); and making films as an act of distribution for the sculptural object 7:50 GH: engagement with modernism and failed utopias, unrealized and realized projects. 9:32 GH: on SL’s practice of ‘making and staging’, makes comparison with Thomas Demand’s use of miniature / maquette and use of stills as means to document; the idea of ‘metamorphosis’ 10:20 GH: asks SL about her CIRCUIT commissioned work By Sea (2015), describes it as ‘exquisite’ but “I don’t understand the connection to the commission”. Mentions his own commission in response to the writing of Julian Dashper. 11:00: SL: on the geometry and architecture Joanna Paul’s letterforms and poems as inspiration for By Sea. Question of how dependent to be on the source material. 13:00 MA: What is the resonance of these failed utopias today? GH: On City of Tomorrow (2017), inspired by Courbisier’s architectural vision of Chandigargh. Discusses Leisure Valley (2014) and The Port (2014). 16:00 SL: Modernist history as ‘foil’ in her work, modernist design as ‘pure transmission of content’. Discusses Infinitesmals (2016) - ‘Almost like making the found object I wish existed’. 18:00 SL: Discusses making work for cinema context versus installation. Use of script /text for By Sea to bring ‘sense of intimacy’. 20:50: GH: describes shared ‘essayistic’ practice with SL. “If the essay film has become a trope…and these strategies that we’re using have become formulaic, how do we negotiate our way through that?” 22:00 GH: asks SL about use of the voice in her work Infinitesimals - “Within the heterotopian space what does it mean for (the actor/readers) voice to be present?” 24:30 SL: Discusses working a Japanese New Zealander to voice By Sea. Discusses attempt to use subtitles. 26:15 SL & GH: Discusses working with actors for Erewhon (2014). Use of visual prompts. GH on working with reader Mia Blake. 29:00 GH: on collaboration in moving image projects and with jeweller Karl Fritsch, sound designer Ben Sinclair. 31:30: SL: on collaboration, instructions to musicians. Discusses Lightreading collaboration with Sarah Rose “we can overwrite anything that each other have done…there’s nothing that’s untouchable”. Discusses Courtenay Place commissions and new negotiation of collaboration between Lightreading and others. 35:13: GH: on working with Karl Fritsch and giving up authorship. On recent soundtrack for City of Tomorrow by Torben Tilly, and presenting the audio in an installation context. Activating a single channel work through performance.
“I would like to see thinking understood as a materiality.” - Bridget Riggir-Cuddy On the occasion of the exhibition Starling recently installed at Artspace, artist Sorawit Songsataya and Artspace Assistant Curator Bridget Riggir-Cuddy sit down to unpack their six-year collaborative relationship, the ethics of making, and post-humanist theory. With podcast host Mark Amery.
For our 2017 recap, host Mark Amery is joined by Cameron Ah Loo Matamua, Abby Cunnane and Judy Darragh. Topics covered include; powerful women, generational shifts, emerging artists, Documenta, Labour's arts policy, great pieces of writing, documents and flags. Honourable mentions are made of many but include Sione Monu, Chris Krause, Leafa Wilson, Ahilapalapa Rands, Lana Lopesi, Luke Willis-Thompson, Matt Galloway, Dirt Future, Gil Hanly, and we raise a glass in memory of Paul Cullen. Thanks to The Audio Foundation, Auckland for the generous loan of their recording facilities.
How does the body absorb the pulse of technology? What connects the mechanical and the breath? This week on CIRCUIT Cast, host Mark Amery talks to CIRCUIT Curatorial Intern Priscilla Howe during the installation of her group show PULSE/REPEAT at the Audio Foundation in Auckland. PULSE/REPEAT runs until December 20.
What are the challenges and opportunities facing Pacific artists in New Zealand today? The Director of the Tautai Pacific Arts Trust Christina Jeffery speaks to host Mark Amery about the successes of the Pacific art community and support needed for it’s development. Recorded earlier in 2017, Mark and Christina begin by talking about the Honolulu Biennial and the shared concerns between Pacific Rim artists.
In a CIRCUIT first, this pod takes place from the set of Sam Hamilton's new film. Phoning in from Portland Oregon, Sam talks to host Mark Amery about the newly commissioned work, screening as a part of this years CIRCUIT Symposium. Still from FOR THIRTY YEARS, NANCY WOULD SIT OUT ON THE STREET CORNER AND WATCH THE SUNSET (2017) Sam Hamilton.
Fiona Amundsen talks to Mark Amery about the forthcoming premiere of her CIRCUIT Artist Cinema commission 'A body that lives' which examines the 1944 breakout (from a prison camp in Cowra, Australia) of just over 1,000 Japanese prisoners. Still from A body that lives (2017) Fiona Amundsen.
In this pod Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and host Mark Amery discuss Acting Out, an Adam Art Gallery survey of New Zealand and international artists “who express the raw physicality of sex with varying degrees of candour.”
"One thing has led to another..." On the release of a career spanning book, 101 year old artist Michael Nicholson talks to Mark Amery about art, the power of the absurd, witchcraft, mystic philosophy and "the power to live life gracefully". The pod took place in Michael's home studio in Wellington. Copies of the book can be ordered through publisher Steel Roberts - http://steeleroberts.co.nz/product/visual-language-games/ See Michael's Visual Music on CIRCUIT - http://www.circuit.org.nz/artist/michael-nicholson Music for this podcast by Heat Pump.
How do we fill in the blanks of our own histories? This week on the podcast we speak with Mairi Gunn about moving from a career in the film industry to working in contemporary art. Speaking to host Mark Amery at the Pah Homestead we hear the backstory of her installation Common Ground, which looks at New Zealand Māori and Scottish Highlanders and their relationships to the land of their ancestors. In this wide-ranging conversation Mairi discusses working as a woman in the film industry, relational art, Merata Mita, public funding and having difficult conversations.
“Is it possible for the Romantic to exceed the rational without eliminating it?” Cushla Donaldson talks Mark Amery through the exhibition The Fairy Falls at Te Uru Waitakere, featuring the premiere of a new film work documenting the mythical 1973 performance by Black Sabbath at The Great Ngaruawahia Music Festival.
"How does entanglement in the technical circuits of ‘progress’ shape not just dreams, but the capacity to dream?" In this pod guests Judy Darragh and Scott Hamilton join Mark Amery to discuss Dream Dialects, an exhibition by British artist Jem Noble recently installed at Te Tuhi, Auckland, which responds to the New Zealand film Sleeping Dogs (1977), directed by Roger Donaldson, and to the novel Smith’s Dream (1971), by C. K. Stead, on which the film is based. Both the novel and film tell a fictional tale of an insidious authoritarian power supplanting liberal democracy under familiar mantras of economic crisis and national security. Dream Dialects takes the contemporary resonance of this story as a starting point to consider the media through which narratives circulate and how they affect the nature of subjectivity and its capacity for political action.
“How does your native soul inform your work?” This week on the podcast, host Mark Amery sits down with broadcasting legend Tainui Stephens at the launch of the 2017 Māoriland Film Festival, to discuss indigenous modes of exchange and distribution.
Mark Amery, the curator for Common Ground Public Arts Festival talks about how artists are creating some big conversations about a precious resource - our water.
Do you make art? What does it smell like? Does it fit in a paddling pool? Our first pod of 2017 sees Mark Amery in conversation with RIFF RAFF aka Li-Ming Hu and Daphne Simons, who discuss their Enjoy Gallery summer residency and forthcoming Telethon, which seeks to amass a 'stupendously large' collection of contemporary art which will be offered as a gift to the Chartwell Art Trust. Mark Amery attempts to unpick the layers beyond the project which offers no parameters for donations, except that the giver deems the work to be 'art'. Plus! A new CIRCUIT CAST theme tune by HEAT PUMP.
How do we create indigenous spaces in our institutions? Our 2016 end of year pod took place immediately after a wānanga on curating indigenous art at Takapūwāhia Marae and Pātaka Art + Museum, and a subsequent panel at City Gallery Wellington. Pod guests Nina Tonga, Martin Patrick and Nathan Pohio discuss questions of making space with host Mark Amery. All this plus highlights of 2016 - Best emerging artist? Best show? And looking towards the future, where do artists want to situate their art and why? Image: Detail from Ladies (2016) Chris Ulutupu Apologies for the technical issues in this podcast, which were a product of a) technical failure and b) the crazy idea to situate this conversation in a bar pre-Xmas. Yes, we know.
Location!… location? Mike Heynes' new commission for Masons Screen addresses one of the most urgent issues for many New Zealanders, housing affordablity. Host Mark Amery talks to Heynes about responding to current events, and how technology enables political action. As Masons Screen approaches its' first anniversary Mark Amery also talks to CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams about the screens site in the downtown business district, opposite a fashion school. Our thanks to Eve Armstrong and Wellington City Council. Mark Williams 0-4:00 mins Mike Heynes 4:00-12:00 mins
How do we attribute value? On the 50th anniversary of the Frances Hodgkins residency in Dunedin 2015 fellow John Ward Knox talks to Mark Amery about art economies, human remains and staying on in the South to examine his “inner gothic cathedral”.
“...avoid the Pakeha books on Maori mythology … take a look in the kids’ section instead.” How to respond to a place that is not your own? Hong Kong artist Josette Chiang talks to Mark Amery about her recent residency in Wellington and the subsequent installation at Toi Poneke Gallery 'Coastline Paradox', which presents various systems of measure applied to Wellington's landscape. Coastline Paradox was completed during Josette's recent residency in Wellington as part of the Wellington Asia Residency Exchange programme with the support of Wellington City Council, Asia New Zealand Foundation and CIRCUIT.
Could New Zealand’s geographical distance be seen as a strength? Is the rumour more potent than the work? How would reframing conceptualist Julian Dashper as a video artist remap New Zealand’s art history? Ahead of the CIRCUIT symposium Phantom Topologies our curator-at-large George Clark talks with Mark Amery about This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema, a programme curated by George and commissioned by CIRCUIT. Plus he discusses symposium guests Merv Espina, Martha and Jake Atienza, and new models for artist run space in South East Asia. Jake Atienza and Merv Espina's visit to New Zealand is supported by the Asia New Zealand Foundation.
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). Image: Sorawit Songsataya, Bronies (2016), Animation 3.13 min, 3D printed vases, images printed on steel commissioned by Te Tuhi, Auckland Photo by Sam Hartnett
As Janet Lilo enjoys her first solo survey show 'Status Update' at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, the artist speaks to Mark Amery about coincidence, accountability and her addiction to a socially-driven practice. Image: Janet Lilo, Portrait, digital photograph
Traces and Transmissions; In this podcast Thomasin Sleigh and Tim Corballis join host Mark Amery to discuss Sonya Lacey's installation Infinitesimals, which taks it's cues from homeopathy, linguistics and material shift.. Recently installed at Massey University's Engine Room and The Physics Room in Christchurch the pod find parallels with modernism, abstraction and much more.
We have a reality, do we really need another one? On the occasion of his installation lowercase at Starkwhite Gallery, Clinton Watkins discusses the real, the virtual and spinning skulls. Your interviewer is Mark Amery. Image: Still from mono (2015) Clinton Watkins
Yuki Kihara leads Mark Amery on a walkthrough of her exhibition ‘A Study of a Samoan Savage’ at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery. Examining historical and contemporary depictions of the Samoan body, Kihara discusses the show’s links between Samoan spirituality, Eadweard Muybridge and Sonny Bill Williams. Curator Ioana Gordon-Smith joins us briefly to discuss the shows resonance in West Auckland. Image: Subscapular with Skinfold Caliper' (2015) From 'A Study of a Samoan Savage' (2015) series Yuki Kihara Courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries Dunedin
Cinema of splendour or 'be-numbed ego-centrism'? Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and Mark Amery review Matthew Barney's epic cine-opera River of Fundament. The pod discuss Barney's interplay between sculpture, cinema and visual art, his positions on gender and women, and his many references to celebrated figures of the 20th century avant-garde. Is this a film for our times? All this plus J Hoberman and James Lee Byers. Image: River of Fundament (2014) Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler
How does a gallery best serve it’s public? How does a gallery best serve an artist? In this podcast Ema Tavola, Judy Darragh and host Mark Amery find many resonances in the work of Angela Tiatia, but lament the missed opportunities in a survey at Māngere Arts Centre. Image credit: Angela Tiatia, Walking the Wall, 2014, Digital Video, Duration 13:04 minutes. Courtesy of the Artist & Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.
What is an artist-run space today? Mark Amery talks to Chloe Geoghegan, Director of Dunedin's Blue Oyster about the evolution of the gallery, her previous role at Dog Park in Christchurch and Dunedin's new City Council-led arts precinct.
On the phone from Sydney, Jae Hoon Lee talks to Mark Amery about showing his work in a hotel at the Spring 1883 art fair, how his practice draws on Eastern spiritual philosophy and his recent residency at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Where does your mind go? Christina Read talks to Mark Amery about her installation The Brain which brings together 15 artists works in an idiosyncratic spatial and conceptual diagram of a brain. Curated by artist Christina Read and commissioned by CIRCUIT in partnership with Te Uru Waitakere with the support of Creative New Zealand, The Brain is ituated within a sculptural platform conceived and constructed by Paul Cullen. 15 single channel video works explore themes including landscapes of perception and cognition, tangible thoughts, altered states, phantom limbs, the wandering mind, TV brains, dream archives, memory files, and the body in movement. Exhibited until 15 November 2015 at Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery.
How does a film-maker respond to a poem? Nova Paul talks to Mark Amery about the making of her film Still Light and film maker Joanna Paul's 'radical simplicity'. Still Light screens as part of Six Artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul, 7pm, Friday 14 August, Academy Cinema, Auckland. $10 or free with CIRCUIT symposium registration.
In conjunction with her show at Enjoy Gallery 'I thought I would of climbed more mountains by now', Bridget Reweti discusses lost utopias, how Maori have adapted new spiritual movements, and singing lessons. Your host is Mark Amery, Music by Tlaotlon. Supported by Creative New Zealand
"I'm more interested in shows with smaller budgets but bigger ideas". Ahead of the upcoming show by Matthew Cowan, Jeff Henderson the Director of The Audio Foundation talks to Mark Amery about folk tradition as a precursor of noise music, the ethos of running a multi-disciplinary space, and the economies of arts funding - “the models accepted by festivals are flawed”. Image: (L) Jeff Henderson, Director of the Audio Foundation (R) Mark Amery http://www.audiofoundation.org.nz/
How important is the gallery exhibition to the work? In this podcast Mark Amery talks to pioneering pop artist and conceptualist Billy Apple about his survey at Auckland Art Gallery The Artist Has to Live Like Everyone Else. Apple reflects on his collaboration with Nam Jun Paik, his willingness to be cloned and his work with agencies from Saatchi and Saatchi to Womens Refuge.
What makes a group of works an exhibition? How does one translate a public art action into the gallery? How does art give witness to catastrophe? These and other big questions on this CIRCUIT CAST as Emil Dryburgh, Mark Jackson and host Mark Amery review the recent St Paul St show Invisible Energy.
Artist Siv Fjaerestad and public space advocate Mark Amery,talk about one of the biggest art projects ever to happen in Wellington; Projected Fields.
What makes a video a performance? In this pod Mark Amery interviews artists Denise Batchelor and Erica Sklenars about their work in the The Performance Arcade, a annual festival of “installation, performance art, sonic art, audio-visual art, interactive media, culinary art and live music” presented in shipping containers on the Wellington waterfront. Our thanks to the artists and Sam Trubridge. Image courtesy of The Performance Arcade. http://www.theperformancearcade.com/ CIRCUIT Cast was presented with assistance of Creative New Zealand. Music by Tlaotlon.
In our first pod for 2015 we discuss the online component of The Drowned World, an exhibition of student work curated by Daniel Satele for Tautai Pacific Arts Trust. Featuring panellists Claudia Arozqueta, Thomasin Sleigh and host Mark Amery. In part 1 we discuss works by Nina Oberg Humphries, Elyjana Roach and Jasmine Te Hira. In part 2 we discuss the online environment as exhibition platform; Did our panellists watch the works all the way through? Should a student show aim to be on the web in perpetuity? Will an online exhibition find an art audience? Also on this pod - a new theme tune by TLAOTLON. Image: Lost Content (2014) Jasmine Te Hira. Courtesy of Tautai Pacific Arts Trust
What were the best exhibitions of 2014? Best emerging artist? Best art writing? Did the public programme taken over the exhibition? Are you cuddling a Care Bear? Megan Dunn, Martin Patrick and host Mark Amery ask the important questions about the year that was, with email best-of's from Pod regular Thomasin Sleigh. Part 1: 00:00-12:50 Best shows of 2014, Auckland's aggressiveness versus Wellington's fruityness, Robert Leonard at City Gallery Part 2: 12:50-26:00 Shannon Te Ao, Freedom Farmers, Wystan Curnow, Has the public programme taken over the exhibition? Part 3: 26:00-34:30 Thoughts on the Walters Prize and Simon Denny Image: Collectors Edition (Glitch), Eddie Clemens. Adam Art Gallery, Wellington 2014. Photo by Shaun Waugh
In this edition of CIRCUIT Cast we interview Tahi Moore about his show Psyche Rebuild at Hopkinson Mossman and discuss how his practice investigates the gap between thought and language; in our round table discussion our guests Mark Jackson and Ahilapalapa Rands discuss the Auckland Art Gallery’s summer blockbuster Light Show. Your host is Mark Amery. Image: Magic Hour (2004-2007) David Batchelor. Courtesy the artist, Galeria Leme, São Paulo and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh Guest Bios: Dr. Mark Jackson is Associate Professor of Design in the School of Art and Design, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT University, New Zealand. He has published in the fields of design history and theory, the visual arts, film and media as well as architecture and landscape architecture. He has had a number of film and video works exhibited internationally. His current research focus is on ethics and design cultures with particular emphasis on the works of Derrida, Heidegger, Agamben and Levinas. Ahilapalapa Rands is the outgoing Education Intern at Artspace, a leading contemporary New Zealand gallery located on Karangahape Road in Auckland. In 2013 she co-curated Close To Home, the 6th Tautai Tertiary Exhibition at ST Paul St Gallery with her Mum Melanie Rands followed by her recent curation of Artspace exhibitionW e l co m e in September 2014. Ahi graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT University. During her studies she worked in video and performance installation. Along with Maila Urale, Linda T, and Chris Fitzgerald she is one of the founding members of D.A.N.C.E. art club who have been working together since 2008. Ahi is a fourth generation New Zealander on her father’s side and second on her mother’s side with links to Hawai‘i, Tongareva, Fiji, Samoan, England & Scotland. http://www.artspace.org.nz/exhibitions/2014/welcome.asp Dance - http://danceartclub.co.nz/
In this CIRCUIT podcast we take a break from our usual three-act format to interview Adnan Yıldız, incoming director of Artspace Auckland. Adnan talks about research, collaboration and his vision for Artspace. Additional comments from acting Artspace Director Anna Gardner. Your interviewer is Mark Amery. Edited by Callum Devlin. Image credit: Misal Adnan Yıldız, Photo by Fabian Schewe (At the back: Erdag Aksel's "A Calculated Loss of Memory- Stuttgart" 2014 as part the exhibition "Life of Objects" Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Spring (Northern Hemisphere) 2014)
In this months CIRCUIT Cast; William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time is discussed in front of a live audience at City Gallery Wellington by host Mark Amery, panellists Thomasin Sleigh and Martin Patrick and an audience member; in part 2 we talk to Simon Denny mid-install for The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom at the Adam Art Gallery, and in Part 3 we begin a new monthly feature on artist-run spaces by talking to Henry Davidson about Auckland's Gloria Knight. Part 1 was recorded at City Gallery Wellington as Part of Tuatara Open Late on Thursday 2 October. This pod was produced with the assistance of Creative New Zealand, with thanks to Tracey Monsatra, Steve McVey, Olivia Lacey and Ann Gale. Music by Orchestra of Spheres. Image credit: William Kentridge, The Refusal of Time (detail - film still), 2012. A collaboration with Philip Miller, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison. Five-channel video with sound, 30 min, with megaphones and breathing machine ("Elephant"). State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through the TomorrowFund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2013.
In this podcast our panel dissect Gavin Hipkins’ feature film adaptation of Samuel Butler’s 1872 novel Erewhon, asking what message Butler and Hipkins have for us in 2014? In Part 2 we talk to Kim Paton about the vibrant SPARK media arts festival in Hamilton. Your host as always is Mark Amery, with guests Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh.
This months CIRCUIT CAST is an export quality edition; Mark Amery joins Martin Patrick and Thomasin Sleigh at the Tongan contemporary survey Tonga ‘i Onopooni at Pataka, Kim Pieters journeys up from the Dunedin underground to to present her survey What is a life? at the Adam Art Gallery, and mid-install of her group show with the Mata Aho collective Kaokao, Terri Te Tau discusses sending her installation work Unregistered and Unwarranted to Eyebeam in New York. All that and a few calamitous mis-pronunciations on this months CIRCUIT CAST. Image: Kim Pieters, Halo (2010), digital video, audio by Edie Stevens, in the exhibition What is a life? Kim Pieters at the Adam Art Gallery (Photo: Shaun Waugh)
In the pod this month our critical panel finds much to celebrate in Peter Wareing's Stuggorings and Fijetterings at Enjoy Gallery, we visit Seung Yul Oh mid-install of his 10 year survey MoaMoa at City Gallery Wellington and we dial up curator Mercedes Vicente on a crackly line in Spain to discuss her Art and Social Change research residency in India, subsequent exhibitions in Christchurch and Auckland, the legacy of Darcy Lange and the vexed issue of how artists resolve the divide between ethics and aesthetics. As usual your host is Mark Amery with guest panellists Martin Patrick and Megan Dunn. Image: Stuggorings and Fijetterings (2014) Peter Wareing
This month’s CIRCUIT CAST is on the road; from Wellington Martin Patrick, Thomasin Sleigh and Mark Amery discuss Simon Starling’s ‘In Speculuum’, in Auckland Te Tuhi Director James McCarthy talks about his new job as Van Driver/Wrestler for the Maldives Exodus Caravan Show; while in Dunedin performance and video artist Samin Son discusses his Blue Oyster residency and the possibility of leaving New Zealand for pastures new.
It's the first CIRCUIT Cast for 2014! In this months pod we talk to Australian artist Nathan Gray about his decision to withdraw from this years Sydney Biennale, just hours before the Biennale ended it's association with controversial sponsor Transfield Holdings. Panellists Martin Patrick and Abby Cunnane join host Mark Amery to dissect the Adam Art Gallery exhibition Cinema and Painting. From New York we are joined by the one of the show's artists, Mr Ken Jacobs, who with his wife Florence discuss the relationship between the aforementioned two mediums, Jacobs' 3D cinema and also share an anecdote about Len Lye in New York during the 1960s. Image: Ken Jacobs, film still from The Guests, 2013. 3D Archival footage transferred to digital video, DCP, b/w, surround-sound, 74mins. Courtesy of the artist.
It's out final podcast for 2013, and in this edition we decamp to the pub and discuss the highs and lows of 2013, while host Mark Amery attempts to extracts guest picks for the 2014 Walters Prize. Featuring guests Abby Cunnane (vodka/tonic), Michelle Menzies (light ale), Megan Dunn (vodka/tonic) and Martin Patrick (light ale). Later in the pod we dial up Mel Oliver at the Physics Room in Christchurch to review the year that was, and recent artist mobile cinema project Picture House, featuring a collection of works curated by CIRCUIT.
This month it's a noisy old pod as host Mark Amery gives two thumbs down to Sound Full at City Gallery Wellington only to be rebutted by guests Martin Patrick and Sophie Jerram; we talk to Dr Max Schleser co-founder of MINA , the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa about their upcoming symposium and mobile technology in contemporary art; then we round off by dialing up Rebecca Hobbs in Auckland where her show Body Rock has just opened at the Film Archive. All that, some paper rustling, two studios and the usual gripping content that is CIRCUIT CAST. Image: Kusum Normoyle, Tension Sets (3) installation view City Gallery Wellington, 2013, video and audio. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Justine Hall.
In this CIRCUIT CAST; host Mark Amery talks abut Francis Alÿs' REEL-UNREEL, recently at the Adam Art Gallery and also on the artists website. Guests are Martin Patrick (writer, academic) and Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (artist). Mid-show we cross to Christchurch where Phil Dadson is preparing a new version of his interactive work the Bodytok Quintet. Phil also talks about the aesthetics of early video and the recent CIRCUIT symposium. To finish CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams makes his biannual pod appearance to wrap up the CIRCUIT symposium and announce two exciting new CIRCUIT initiatives for artists. Image: Francis Alÿs (in collaboration with Julien Devaux and Ajmal Maiwandi), still from Reel-Unreel, 2011. Video documentation of an action. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London.
In this months CIRCUIT podcast your host Mark Amery welcomes Dick Whyte, who offers a brief and pained shakedown on Warhol at Te Papa before discussing his remake of Pulp Fiction using over 400 You Tube fan videos. Wanganui artist Brit Bunkley talks about embracing digital distribution and a new online service [S]edition which promises Artists video for your smartphone, tablet or TV at a fraction of the dealer price. And kicking it all off for June, Abby Cunnane and Tim Corballis reflect on Beautiful Creatures at the Adam Art Gallery, featuring Bill Henson, Jacqueline Fraser and the man sometimes described as the original Warhol, Mr Jack Smith. Produced with the assistance of Creative New Zealand, Massey University School of Fine Arts and Mike Heynes. Music by Orchestra of Spheres.
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