White Noise
March 2009
On Monday, March 16th, 2009, at 6:30AM, I entered a 36”x36”x41” box that I had constructed from unfinished
pine and plexiglas. For 12 hours, I sat in the box. Within the box, I was exposed to high volume white noise.
I did not drink; I did not eat; I was unable to move more than a few inches in any direction.
For the duration of the performance, a recording of a US Military document
that outlined coercion tactics used on enemy combatants detained at military
prisons played on a loop via headphones for those who wished to hear.
Included among those tactics was white noise exposure.
