Lake Without Water
Lake Without Water
Lake Without Water
A Lake Without Water began on Weereewa (Lake George), a dry lake in the Southern NSW Tablelands. The project became an apparatus 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.
Links
Artspace Exhibition (2006)
Review by Bec Dean for Realtime (2006)
Dougal Phillips review for Art and Australia (2006)
David Teh for Artspace Projects (2006)
Acknowledgements
| Creative Collaborator | Scott Otto Anderson |
| Sound Design | Gail Priest |
| Cinematography | Oliver Lawrence |
| Production Assistant | Therese Harrison |
| Camera Assistant | Fahud Ahmed |
| Steadicam | Tony Bosch |
| Original Music | Kayne Jansen |
| Post Production | Craig Deeker at the Gingerbread Man |
| Funding | Australia Council for the Arts, Visual Arts Board |
Participants
George Baitch, Peter Baldwin, Les Gardner and Erin from the Marching Koalas.
Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Installation view - Artspace 2006
Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design 8 channel video installation DVCPRO / DVD |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Installation view - Artspace 2006
Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design 8 channel video installation DVCPRO / DVD |
A Lake Without Water
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|
| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Installation view - Artspace 2006
Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design 8 channel video installation DVCPRO / DVD |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: |
Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 1:25 from 57 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 4:20 min from 57 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 3:52 from 19:00 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 3:52 from 19:00 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 3:12 min from 19:00 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 0:19 min from 19:00 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 4:41 min from 19:00 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Media: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video still from 8 channel installation DVCPRO / DVD Duration: 1:39 min from 19:00 min loop |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Duration: | 2:38 min |
| Media: |
Documentation of exhibition at Artspace, Sydney
DVCPRO / DVD |
| Credits: |
Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video courtesy of artist and GRANTPIRRIE |
A Lake Without Water
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| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Duration: | 1:25 min from 57 min loop |
| Media: |
Detail of video presented on 32" LCD screen
DVCPRO / DVD |
| Credits: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video courtesy of artist and GRANTPIRRIE |
A Lake Without Water
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|
|
| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Duration: | 4:20 min from 57 min loop |
| Media: |
Detail of video presented on 32" LCD screen
DVCPRO / DVD |
| Credits: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video courtesy of artist and GRANTPIRRIE |
A Lake Without Water
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|
|
| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Duration: | 3:52 min from 19:00 min loop |
| Media: |
Detail of video presented on 32" LCD screen
DVCPRO / DVD |
| Credits: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video courtesy of artist and GRANTPIRRIE |
A Lake Without Water
|
|
|
| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Duration: | 3:52 min from 19:00 min loop |
| Media: |
Detail of video presented on 32" LCD screen
DVCPRO / DVD |
| Credits: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video courtesy of artist and GRANTPIRRIE |
A Lake Without Water
|
|
|
| Title: | A Lake Without Water |
| Year: | (2005 - 2006) |
| Duration: | 1:38 min from 19:00 min loop |
| Media: |
Detail of video presented on 32" LCD screen
DVCPRO / DVD |
| Credits: | Alex Kershaw - Director/Producer
Scott Otto Anderson - Creative Collaborator Gail Priest - Sound Design Video courtesy of artist and GRANTPIRRIE |