A Lake Without Water began on Weereewa (Lake George), a dry lake in the Southern NSW Tablelands. The project became a vehicle for making exchange happen and creating new ways of being with people that live and work around the lake. Weereewa becomes a theatre with farmers, an auctioneer and surveyors cast as its actors.

The video pieces utilises the lake as a stage for instigating acts of play, documenting performances that act as circuit breakers within the daily routines of work in and around the lake. Surveyors, auctioneers and farmers are usually responsible for the reduction of landscape in exchangeable symbolic forms such as maps, law and currency. In A Lake without Water, however, they are recast in slapstick style performances, ludic monologues, and uncanny documents.

Artspace Exhibition (2006)
Review by Bec Dean for Realtime (2006)
Dougal Phillips review for Art and Australia (2006)
David Teh for Artspace Projects (2006)