The Sublime (2018)
Audio Walk Experience, The Quarry, presented in Winter Wild Festival
Created in collaboration with These Are The Projects We Do Together, The Sublime was developed in response to a disused bluestone quarry. The work explores human impact on the environment, alongside the ongoing labour of maintenance, care and control required to shape the land.
Audiences were guided across the 86,000-square-metre site by a strange yeti-like figure, listening to a radio play in which two robots discuss their disdain for the human race and propose its annihilation as a necessary reset for ecological balance.
Along the journey, participants encountered a series of staged interventions: distant workers burning tower structures, a reflective mirror wall cutting across the landscape, steep quarry cliffs, and a ceremonial raft launch. These moments unfolded between fiction and reality, performance and site.
The work sought to generate encounters with the sublime, those slippages in time and perception where awe and terror coexist, and where human presence feels both powerful and insignificant within a vast, unstable environment.