The Taken Path

The Taken Path description

The Taken Path is an open-ended experiment in observation and embodied experience. It is a speculative, durational project that hangs off a simple, yet poetic, idea: what would we notice if we walked the same path, once a month over the course of a year and filmed the journey?

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.

Artists Catherine Truman and Ian Gibbins filmed a defined path that traverses the natural and altered landscapes at Carrick Hill, at monthly intervals over a year. This repeated action reveals profound shifts of climate and impacts of human industry. If we keep to the path already taken, what happens to our powers of observation? If we walk it many times, does our awareness shift or is it becalmed? Can we learn anew from this repetition?