Artist Ilish Thomas joins Jane on this episode, ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition at The Physics Room. Ilish talks through some of the points of reference for this new moving-image work which orbits The Crystal Palace Theatre in Maungawhau, Tāmaki Makaurau, and in her wider practice.

Curator James Tapsell-Kururangi talks to Bri Leone-Rhea Lawrence and Aidan Taira Geraghty for our current exhibition 09 07 25. This episode is broadcast during Te Wiki o te reo Māori.

In this second Artist Documents episode, curator Jane Wallace speaks to Bootleg artist Tamsen Hopkinson. Tamsen talks about some of the things that influenced the installation Crimson and Clover in the exhibition, including the Tommy James song, a hole-punch, and silent letters.

This is the first of a mini-series called Artist Documents that we will be hosting on Contemporary Art Kōrero over the coming months. Artist Documents is a conversation with an artist from The Physics Room programming in which we speak about points of reference for their practice recently–maybe a place, a song, a particular material, a text, an object. In this episode, I speak to Abigail Aroha Jensen, currently exhibiting in the gallery with Tamsen Hopkinson as part of our current exhibition Bootleg, about some of the objects and ideas that informed her work for the show.

Broadcast on the Matariki holiday, this episode features an audio component from our current exhibition, Te oorokohanga mai o te tangi o te mooteatea by Ngamako Rota. Shared here, E Rongo e is the sonic counterpart to Ngamako's film work, in which she receives her moko kauae at Rangiriri. The work builds on the whakapapa of mooteatea, and the frequencies of iro, ngaro, and the way they etch whenua and flesh.

In advance of our book sale on June 14, we return to some back issues of LOG Illustrated. LOG was conceived in 1997, to provide a site for artists and writers to experiment with images and texts in a print format. In this episode, Jane forages through LOG's past pages.

For this special Good Friday episode, our Access Coordinator Honey Brown takes over The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero. Djing under the name AAKI, tune into their fluid set of textural and digital techno

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This episode of The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero features artists Ma'alo Lafo, Axel Iva, Lolani Dalosa and designer Warren Olds speaking with James Tapsell-Kururangi. The audio portraits highlight some of the inspiration for the practice and process. And a preview of their current artworks in development for their upcoming exhibition at the end of March.

Returning for the new year, this episode of The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero introduces artists Tarren Johnson and Joel Cocks who have developed Blank Banquet, the first exhibition of 2025 at The Physics Room. Tarren and Joel speak to curator Jane Wallace about the process of creating this project, encompassing choreography, video, and photographic installation.

For the final episode of The Physics Room Contemporary Art Kōrero for 2024, curator Jane Wallace speaks to Steven Junil Park about craft and communion, on the closing weekend of Yawning at the Fray. A silver bell, an artwork by Steven titled Sing me the songs you used to sing chimes as interlude throughout.

In this episode we visit artist Ruby Chang-Jet White in the kitchen while she is cooking for Other tongue 餓 ghost kitchen, a takeaway food service to nourish healing bodies that was developed alongside our current exhibiiton Yawning at the Fray. We also share Essa May Ranapiri reading their poem drymoanasaltpile from What is that salty voice? a new publication developed with Ana Iti.