Dorothy Hunter
I am a research-based artist who frequently works with ideas of place through temporal markings, the political shaping of space, and awkward aftermaths, in-betweens and prior moments. Using a mix of “documentative” media and more abstracting processes in installations, I examine time’s use as a political tool in the planning of contentious space, and its handling in the culture and heritage industries. I’m particularly interested in sites where understandings of time and ownership clash in little-seen or understood places. Temporality and railroaded futures can be questioned through such places, where their logic breaks down or is momentarily visible.
One current research project explores the UNESCO Cuilcagh Lakelands geopark on the Fermanagh/Cavan border and the impact of (mostly undiscovered) underground space in its extensive cave network. At this site, two states meet in the care and branding of inhabited land, all overseen by an extra-state body. I am interested in the potential of constantly opening and closing spaces, their cartography, and complications of conventional human framing of the world, where it frustrates property and state-based understandings of land.
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