The Power that Flows Through Us.
The Power that Flows Through Us
Published on the occasion of the installation at the Heritage Precinct, Cromwell, and Clyde Museum, Central Otago
2022
Researched, edited and designed by Matthew Galloway; edition of 2000
The Power that Flows Through Us examines the construction and legacy of the Clyde Dam—set in motion in the late 1970s as part of Robert Muldoon’s ‘Think Big’ initiative—through poetry, writing, interviews and archival political cartoons. Published as a newspaper alongside the installation of the same name, it brings together poems by Brian Turner, writing by Tina Ngata, an essay of my own, and interviews with Edward Ellison, Kevin Jackson, Neil Gillespie and Duncan Faulkner, set against full-page drone stills of the dam.
Contents: The Power that Flows Through Us, Matthew Galloway; Unrecognisable Landscapes, interview with Edward Ellison; Before the Flood, interview with Kevin Jackson; Wai Māori, Tina Ngata; The Politics of Power, interview with Neil Gillespie; The Promise of a Lake, interview with Duncan Faulkner; poems by Brian Turner
Published with funding from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Creative New Zealand. Cartoons reproduced with permission of the artists and the National Library of New Zealand. Printed by Allied Press, Dunedin.
Read the opening essay, see the installation, or download the full publication.
