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Lake Fill II - performance works to mark the first filling
of hydro Lake Dunstan, Clyde, New Zealand by Lloyd Godman - © Lloyd Godman
Lake Fill II is a subsequent work to The Last Rivers Song - The Last Rivers Song was from 1983 - 4 before the filling of Lake Dunstan - Lake Fill I and II coincided with the actual filling of the lake.
Sculptural Artifacts used in the Performance sequence
"I had dreams,
quixotic dreams, where I contemplated the earth and the river as having
its own gigantic "earth" electrical circuit and people as an indirect
extension of that circuit, or complex intricate components of a whole.
I dreamt of strange ceremonial artifacts, conducting rods, dividers,
induction coils, connectors etc artifacts from an invented mythology
religious items from a different power. Soon I engaged in the making
of conductive artifacts ( sculptures) from the remains of discarded
objects of brass with past uses from past times. For months before the
performance, I scoured the local scrap merchant's brass bins, selecting
potential parts, laying them out to create new objects. I then fused
these unrelated items into structures that resembled strange religious
artifacts".
Lloyd Godman 1994
Fill conductive Artifact III 1993-
Constructed Found Objects - Brass - from Death of a River - Lake
Fill Series - Lloyd Godman |