Commissioned for the 2018 Modern Body Laboratory, The Voices of Nandimul X explores the program's theme of permanence in a post-digital world, and asks: how do histories reside in physical spaces? How may our imaginations of an afterlife be impacted by A.I. systems that are increasingly capable of archiving and emulating an individual's creative output? And can images accumulate a significance over time, different than that of the object within the image? 

These questions are deeply informed by Paul Virilio’s studies and writing on Bunker Archaeology. The project examines how, within a very compressed timeframe, the political image of the German bunkers could be transformed from one of total war, to something different. Perhaps they could be seen as images of fragility, prefiguring Virilio’s later writing on The Aesthetics of Disappearance.
They became images of displacement – modern concrete forms in otherwise natural landscapes. Virilio further questioned whether the image of the bunkers, even just 20 years after serving one political function, could be addressed in more archaeological terms, as images now separate from their original referents.