Hill of Bones is an exercise in cross-dimensional movement that employs video as a means of attempting the translation of this world onto another wavelength. The artists use the camera to trace passages through space that then become folded into the video image, suggesting perhaps the transference elsewhere of both place and body. Using simple techniques during filming to achieve different effects, the artists have not manipulated the footage or sounds in any way during post production. With the sincere curiosity of tourists, they investigate real and apocryphal histories and endeavour to create a reflective response to the Irish landscape. Starting with a retreat to an unassuming crannog, Clinton and Moriarty perform an escape to and from nature. These manmade islands, once used as places of refuge, rebellion and revelry, now lie quiet and still. However, the word ‘crannog’, literally meaning ‘young tree’, describes their potential for reactivation as well as their timeless perpetuity.
