​Hungry 

Made with Laura McMorrow is Two TVs in a Cupboard one part of a larger site specific instillation in the abandoned Old Police Station in the centre of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The instillation was made in response to, what we felt was the over anesthetisation of history, in Steve McQueen’s 2008 feature film Hunger. Within the instillation different rooms represented different scenes from the film.



 

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The scene depicted here is the one in which Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) talks to the Father Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham) discuss San’s debate Sands’ decision to undertake a hunger strike. Rather than taking place in a large clean empty visiting room, the conversation takes place inside a dirty and cramped cupboard. Our conversation, using sentence structure that mirrors Margret Thatchers  1981 speech at Stormont (a recording of which also appears in the film) questions the merits of using art as political tool.



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The Andy Goldsworthy-esque brown circle depicted on the walls during the dirty protest in McQueens film was recreated using Chocolate spread. The smell of which was overpowering and sickly.