Alluvial Gold
Alluvial Gold
Alluvial Gold is a 50-minute performance-installation work for percussion, sculptural instruments, field recordings, electronics and projection that draws audiences into the often-forgotten and changing worlds below river surfaces. Alluvial Gold takes the histories, materials and ecology of our metropolitan rivers as a point of departure. During the European settlement establishments and in the decades that followed, native shellfish reefs within Australian rivers such as the Derbarl Yerrigan (Western Australia) were heavily dredged and ground up for mortar, roads and building materials at sites across the city. Similar histories of dredging, changing estuarine ecology and the impacts of human intervention took place in river systems across southern Australia, particularly in areas used as ports or trading routes following European colonisation.
takes the histories, materials and ecology of our metropolitan rivers as a point of departure. During the European settlement establishments and in the decades that followed, native shellfish reefs within Australian rivers such as the Derbarl Yerrigan (Western Australia) were heavily dredged and ground up for mortar, roads and building materials at sites across the city. Similar histories of dredging, changing estuarine ecology and the impacts of human intervention took place in river systems across southern Australia, particularly in areas used as ports or trading routes following European colonisation.
Funded by Australian Research Council, Department of Local Government, Sports and Cultural Industries
Creative investigators: Dr Louise Devenish, Dr Stuart James, Erin Coates, Mia Holton, Bruce McKinven, with producer Tristen Parr (Tura New Music)
Performances:
- Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 20-22 June 2022
- BOOM! International Festival of Percussion, 6 October 2022
- Perth Festival, 2-4 February 2021
Further information on the Alluvial Gold project can be found here.
Image credit: Edify Media