The Taken Path at Carrick Hill, Adelaide Festival 2025
The Taken Path: a durational project
Catherine Truman & Ian Gibbins
Controls: 2 channel video, HD, 03:43:45, 2 x 75″ screens, silent (2025)
Peripheries: 4 channel video, HD, 00:58:14, 4 x 43″ screens, silent (2025)
Soundtracks: 2 x 2 channel stereo, 01:00:49 and 01:04:33 (2025)
The Wall Gallery, Carrick Hill
46 Carrick Hill Drive, Springfield, SA 5062
Wednesday 12 February – Sunday 16 March 2025
Wednesdays – Sundays 10:00am – 4:30pm
https://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/events/the-taken-path
https://www.carrickhill.sa.gov.au/events/adelaide-festival-exhibition-the-taken-path
The Carrick Hill estate, nestled in the foothills of Adelaide, presents a conundrum of the delicate connections between humans and the greater environment. Here, pure fantasy and the hard reality of both ancient and present life are encountered at once in a microcosm of the wider world.
At monthly intervals over a year, my long-standing artist friend and collaborator Catherine Truman and I used an iPhone and professional video camera respectively to record our walks along a defined path that traverses the natural and altered landscapes at Carrick Hill. This speculative, durational project was inspired by a poetic idea: what would we notice if we walked the same path, once a month over the course of a year and recorded the journey?
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