HERMITAGE (2007)

A remake of the Unabomber's cabin is installed in the warehouse-like space at Exit Art in NYC. Playing on a 1969 Pioneer stereo within the cabin is a digitally synthesized reading of "Life Without Principle" by Henry David Thoreau. An array of tactile transducers, which vibrate at infrasonic frequecies, is mounted to structural elements beneath the cabin's floor, and is driven by the stereo's audio signals. Thus, the Unabomber's cabin literally resonates with the words of Thoreau. The vibrations propagate up from the floor, through the soles of the feet, and into the viewer's body. The words are audible as a muffled rumbling voice produced not by an actual speaker, but by the boards of the cabin itself.