Gavin Hipkins

New Age (2016)

10 min 2 sec (excerpt) of 1 min 8 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Black & White / Sound

Calling on passages from an English spiritualist manual from the 1870s, Hipkins explores the ritual landscape of Avebury’s stone circles. Imagining a solstice celebration with his friends, spiritualism and spirit photography are revisited in the twenty-first century.

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