'Civil Twilight is a series of performances that Roddy Hunter has been developing over the last decade, based on his methodology of research into the idea of urban civic centres as places where collective identity is formed. In these works, Hunter spends extended periods of time walking the central squares in cities like Sfântu Gheorghe, Sheffield, Dundee, London, Minsk, Timisoara, Nové Zámky, Barcelona, Belfast, Los Angeles, Tel Aviv, and Budapest, encouraging passers-by to engage with him in conversation on issues of civil importance: alienation, architec-ture, capital, change, culture, heroism, identity, ideology and utopia – all subjects symbolically related to the actual spaces where the performances occur. The events take place between the hours of sunset and sunrise – that is, during ‘civil twilight’, an astronomical term referring to the time when outdoor activities require artificial illumination. Hunter re-employed the term to con-note the decadence of social functions that were historically acted out in these now deserted esplanades, and which were so important to any notion of ‘civil society’. His engagement with these urban arenas of interchange and alienation, is, as in all his works, a means for carrying out research through his artistic practice.' [Sergio Edelsztein]

Civil Twilight & Other Social Works is the latest development in the project and is designed to be its culmination for the present. Documentation of the Civil Twilight works here are contextualised and articulated further through inclusion of antecedent and parallel ‘social works’ by Hunter from 1994-2005 that engage with inter-relating discourses of space, behaviour and ideology.