Vito Park

  • Seismic Silence
  • Sound Sculpture (2025), 1:1 Anti-tank Landmine replica, 1:1 Wooden-box Landmine replica, Steel, Pine Tree, Two electromagnetic field recording sound composition (4 hours 8 minutes 9 seconds, looped), Earthquake Transducer, Tactile Transducer, Wire, Amplifier.
  • Seismic Silence (2025) is a sound sculpture that reverse-engineers landmine-detection circuits to convert electromagnetic signatures from Korean War-era landmines into vibration that is heard and felt. Tactile transducers embedded in 1:1 anti-tank and wooden box landmine replicas turn the floor into an instrument, inverting detection into tangible audibility. Seismic Silence converts buried, normalized conflict into shared bodily vibration, exposing what is usually unseen or dismissed to a present, felt condition. By turning the DMZ’s residual histories into sonic assault, sound shifts from an instrument of war to a force that unearths, disrupts, and reanimates conflicts that refuse to fade.
  • Research Consultants:
  • - Prof. Charles Stankievech, University of Toronto
  • - Curator Randa Bustami, Royal Canadian Military Institute
  • Video: Miles Rufelds
  • Photo: LF Documentation
  • The two sound sculptures (1:1 replica of historic antitank and wooden-box landmines) present a feedback loop of their original signatures for detection that are now being played back as vibration. The work represents a paradox of peace veiled in perpetual tension of DMZ, which was established as a neutral buffer, yet remains one of the most heavily fortified landscapes on Earth.
  • The name DMZ (demilitarized zone) is ironic given the millions of landmines buried beneath it and the soldiers who stand in ceaseless vigilance, guarding a silence that is anything but demilitarized. Reflecting on this space—where silence hums with the discord of the past and the present remains trapped in the stasis of an unfinished war—I was driven to create Seismic Silence, a work that transforms the DMZ’s reverberations of history into a sonic assault, where sound operates not only as a weapon of war but as a force that unearths, disrupts, and reanimates the echoes of conflict that refuse to fade.
  • Length: 4 hours 8 minutes, 9 seconds. The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of National Defense projected in 2010 that it takes 489 years to remove landmines around the DMZ areas.
  • Sound/Speaker system: Vito Park (created by the electromagnetic field recording of landmine artefacts)
  • Fabrication: Vito Park
  • Research Consultants:
  • - Prof. Charles Stankievech, University of Toronto
  • - Curator Randa Bustami, Royal Canadian Military Institute
  • Video: Miles Rufelds
  • Photo: LF Documentation
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