U n a c a b i n u n d o n e
UNACABIN UNDONE
I installed Unacabin Undone as part of the group show CAMP; art and sustainability, April, 2006 in Hyde State Park near Santa Fe, NM.
The program is commentary on Dr. Theodore Kacyinski's one-man radical movement in which his passionate environmentalism is so anti-social as to become an inversion of the arcadian ideals of Thoreau's Walden.
The project composes two scaled representations of Kacyzinski's Lincoln, Montana cabin. One is a gable end from which a cutout door folds down to become a table. NEDLAW (walden reversed) reads in graphite-stenciled letters on the table's plywood surface. On the table lies a notebook holding a facsimile of the "Unabomber Manifesto", the recluse mathematician's polemic against industrial society and justification for the murders he committed. One may take a chair at the table and study the manifesto. On the ground beyond the table's end a quarter-scale cabin replica is unfolded, the floor, walls and roof flat on the ground. The flayed cabin bears a resemblance to the human form.
Thanks to curator Christina Cogdell.
I installed Unacabin Undone as part of the group show CAMP; art and sustainability, April, 2006 in Hyde State Park near Santa Fe, NM.
The program is commentary on Dr. Theodore Kacyinski's one-man radical movement in which his passionate environmentalism is so anti-social as to become an inversion of the arcadian ideals of Thoreau's Walden.
The project composes two scaled representations of Kacyzinski's Lincoln, Montana cabin. One is a gable end from which a cutout door folds down to become a table. NEDLAW (walden reversed) reads in graphite-stenciled letters on the table's plywood surface. On the table lies a notebook holding a facsimile of the "Unabomber Manifesto", the recluse mathematician's polemic against industrial society and justification for the murders he committed. One may take a chair at the table and study the manifesto. On the ground beyond the table's end a quarter-scale cabin replica is unfolded, the floor, walls and roof flat on the ground. The flayed cabin bears a resemblance to the human form.
Thanks to curator Christina Cogdell.
