The content of "Mr. & Mrs. Krab’s Utopia" is a intimate, honest and often humorous meditation on contemporary rural life in Ireland from a ‘outsiders’ point of view. The participants were asked 'Why did they relocate to start a new life, in Ireland. Were they looking for a kind of Utopia?'. The resulting conversations touched on many rural issues such as the weather, family, time, roads, drugs, cars, wealth, houses and the future.

The research for this commission was conducted through a series of interviews with non nationals living in rural Ireland. I was looking for a outside and informed option on social issues found in contemporary rural Co .Clare. Eventually I decided to present an edited version of one these talks, with a Dutch couple. With this text I combined a random selection of one minuet video studies, loosely recreating the visual details noticed when engaged in a conversation.
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 ‘Dunsmore’s previous work, pursuing her interest in the oral expression of an individual’s memory, best exemplified by her work with Billy Hull in Billy’s Museum and Strikers narrative. Its inscribed within a very specific sociopolitical context .The conceptualization of her work has always been a key issue in Dunsmore’s approach. Whether it was the tense situation of the Maze prison, where she was artist in residence, or Weimar in Germany, where she tracked down traces of the political changes through the discarded street signs of ex-East Germany for Plan, her work has continually drawn its energy from its location.’ Michele Cutaya, Circa Contemporary Visual Culture In Ireland. February ‘08

video from opening night. X-Po Venue, first visual is Decide O'Mahoney's portrait of original post master.

Mr.Krab
Ya but even when you go in the houses they so big but the rooms are still small.

Mr.Krab
Ya.

Mrs.Krab
And there all chicken huts! The rooms it’s unbelievable, they use they space total wrong.

Mr.Krab
You don’t see that in Holland. We like big windows. To let the sun in. Here you see massive houses with small little windows everywhere. And then I think..

Mrs.Krab
All prisons!

Mr.Krab
and loads of houses are not, when you come in there you know it’s not economic, you know the rooms are with big corridors useless space all that kind of things and that’s what I see a lot here in Ireland. But I don’t like - of course there are nice houses - what they build in the last couple of years I don’t like it at all it has nothing to do with Ireland any more. And everyone can build what he want. Also with the planning permission sometimes I can not follow the, because there are people here around farmers they want to build a little house. Or a house for their son daughter or what ever on their own land and they don’t get permission and strangers from everywhere get permission and build the ugliest concrete square things and I hope that they stop that.