MEDIA ARCHIVE


Radio interview

Radio One 91FM The Breakfast Show presented by ADJØ
13 December 2024

Interview with Amos Mann by Zac Hoffman on the release of the soundtrack from the film For a Puppet to Live (2024) as a single.

Topics discussed include:

  • Creative, activist, and puppeteer Rose Beauchamp (1946 – 2022)
  • The Wellington Puppetry Festival, Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Amos’s recent music video releases and production techniques including early-film experimental techniques seen in Dynamics of a field music video
  • Spanish/Aotearoa New Zealand theatre company Naranjarte (Ana Lorite and Sergio Aguilar)
  • Theatre practitioner Katrina Chandra, including her work with Australian puppetry company Snuff Puppets
  • The making of the film For a Puppet to Live (2024)
  • A performance theory of puppetry
  • The nature of experimental documentary
  • The composition of the jazz / trip hop soundtrack of the film For a Puppet to Live (2024)
  • Improvisational jazz groups Beatnik Jam (1987-88) and The Amos Mann Band (1997-2000)
  • 1990s music venue Arc Cafe, Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Release of the soundtrack from the film For a Puppet to Live (2024) as a single, available now on all major platforms
  • Selection of For a Puppet to Live (2024) in the World Cinema programme of the New Wave International Documentary Short Film Festival 2024, Kozhikode, Kerala, India

Magazine article

Positive Negatives, Negative Positives exhibition in PhotoForum
April 2021.

Red Ribbon (detail), Amos Mann, 2020
‘Red Ribbon’ (detail), Amos Mann, 2020

Magazine article

Art and Yoga, Like Brother and Sister, an article focused on the exhibition Image Object Meditations

Published in The Yoga Connection online magazine July 2021.

Read the full article here


Artist profile

HUMANS of AYU, profile on Amos Mann by AYU Dunedin, New Zealand
March 2021


Radio interview

Dunedin Public Art Gallery Late Breakfast on Radio One 91FM
31 July 2021

Radio interview with Amos Mann by Zac Hoffman.

1. Creative process.
2. Influences and family background.
3. Connections to yoga and meditation.
4. Involvement in art movements and artist
collectives in Dunedin, from the 1970s,
1990s, and 2000s including: Ltoloxa,
Super 8, Donna Demente’s Dunedin studio,
Eudaemony dance parties, Everything Inc.,
Arc Café, and the beginnings
of the Dunedin Fringe Festival.
5. Music creation, including the dystopian
dance music album from Band Sensations.
6. A future creative project.
7. DJ commentary.