What do you really need to live? With a body of work that skews survivalist, artist Andrea Zittel experiments with a lifestyle of “less.'
It’s after dark when the artist Andrea Zittel and I begin removing the window coverings. “When guests arrive, the first thing we do is help them take these down, and I’ve made them a pain to put back up.” We’re in a wood-paneled box on the floor of the Wonder Valley in the California desert, one among three converted homesteads that Zittel calls the “Experimental Living Cabins.
The blinds are a point of resistance in design that subtly forces a recognition of context: here you are, without electricity or running water, with an abundance of time—the minimum stay in an Experimental Living Cabin is one week—in a space defined by big windows facing each cardinal direction. Beyond the interior lies a flat expanse of desert, populated by spindly grey-blue creosote bushes, rimmed with mountains, traced over by the arcs of the moon and sun.
Guests come to the Wonder Valley cabins for an encounter with less, an exercise in the forced perspective shift that Zittel specializes in. She’s built a career acting as her own guinea pig, winnowing the physical systems of living to their core functions. She admits there’s a survivalist bent to her work.
In the Wonder Valley cabins, “enough” is a plein air toilet, a glass jug of water, a wool blanket, vessels from Zittel’s studio , a straw broom, a glass storm lantern. The experience guests have here, like much of Zittel’s work, is an invitation to get past the inefficiencies that come with choice. Asked what, with this surfeit of time, one might ideally do, Zittel points to boredom. “Boredom, which is increasingly hard for me to find, is always when I do my best thinking.
Lately, Zittel’s been absorbed with writers of speculative fiction like N.K. Jemisin, Ursula Le Guin, and Octavia Butler. “Butler gets into some pretty hardcore survivalist scenarios that are interesting in light of all that is happening right now.” On their face, her efficient designs for living might draw comparisons to prepper fantasies: the life-support systems of a bomb shelter or a modular design for space colonies.
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