Once Upon A Now - 25 June - 14July 2007
'Once Upon A Now' by Anne Marie Dillon is a careful (re)-creation of a traditional Irish cottage. A single room opened up to expose a detailed interior. Her work method is similar to building conservationists or historians- a precise reconstruction of a rural cottage. But her material reconstruction also includes the world of feelings, dreams and nightmares. She covered the outside walls with cow dung, drowned the interior uniformly in soil; a haunted space populated by a blow up doll staring pointlessly at a small colour TV.
In the context of the recent building boom in Northern Ireland, the regeneration of the city centre and the progressive extinction of historic environments, this installation adresses questions of identity, architectural history and human feelings, mostly never addressed in picture postcard cottage nostalgia.
This installation is the first in the series entitled CONSTRUCTS, a loose sequence of projects around the issue of created space.
CONSTRUCTS II: Hannah Casey.
“Leonia’s rubbish little by little would invade the world, if, from beyond the final crest of its boundless rubbish heap, the street cleaners of other cities were not pressing, also pushing mountains of refuse in front of themselves. Perhaps the whole world, beyond Leonia’s boundaries, is covered by craters of rubbish, each surrounding a metropolis in constant eruption.” - I. Calvino, Invisible Cities.
This work in progress is the second in the series of CONSTRUCTS, focusing on different approaches in creating space. Hannah Casey uses cardboard and tape as the main material for her constructions, creating a site specific, private space or personal architecture within the project space. A playful approach and artistic DIY strategy to shape one's own environment and a critical opposition to the mostly profit driven regeneration in the city
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