“Traveling from Minneapolis to Miami to Glasgow to Paris, Gilbert reveals an extraordinary underground world of individuals bonded by their innate sense of curiosity and adventure.”
-Walker Art Center Catalogue
-Walker Art Center Catalogue
POLICE THINK THEY ARE TERRORISTS BUT URBAN EXPLORERS ARE ACTUALLY A GROWING SUBCULTURE OF ADVENTURE SEEKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO EXPLORE PLACES WHERE MOST PEOPLE WOULD NEVER DREAM OF GOING.
THEY CRAWL THROUGH STORM DRAINS, WANDER AROUND FADED TOURIST ATTRACTIONS, AND RAPPEL INTO LONG-FORGOTTEN U.S. GOVERNMENT SITES. SOME DO IT FOR THE THRILL OF BEING WHERE THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AND NOT KNOWING WHAT LIES AHEAD. OTHERS DO IT TO DOCUMENT HISTORY THAT IS ABOUT TO BE DEMOLISHED.
WE FOLLOW THEM ON THEIR "MISSIONS" TO ABANDONED MENTAL HOSPITALS, THE FORMER "HOUSE OF THE FUTURE" IN ORLANDO, AND EVEN THE CATACOMBS IN PARIS. WILL THEY GET IN? WHAT WILL THEY FIND? WILL THEY GET ARRESTED?
THEY CRAWL THROUGH STORM DRAINS, WANDER AROUND FADED TOURIST ATTRACTIONS, AND RAPPEL INTO LONG-FORGOTTEN U.S. GOVERNMENT SITES. SOME DO IT FOR THE THRILL OF BEING WHERE THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE AND NOT KNOWING WHAT LIES AHEAD. OTHERS DO IT TO DOCUMENT HISTORY THAT IS ABOUT TO BE DEMOLISHED.
WE FOLLOW THEM ON THEIR "MISSIONS" TO ABANDONED MENTAL HOSPITALS, THE FORMER "HOUSE OF THE FUTURE" IN ORLANDO, AND EVEN THE CATACOMBS IN PARIS. WILL THEY GET IN? WHAT WILL THEY FIND? WILL THEY GET ARRESTED?