'For sixty years the U.S. Navy hit the tiny Caribbean island of Vieques with everything it had. .. thousands of acres are still off-limits, choked with contaminants and unexploded ordinance. Enter Nin Brudermann who viewed this wasteland as a real-life manifestation of The Zone: the forbidden, mystically toxic landscape of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky's cinematic masterwork of Soviet futility. ..it's a bit of a shock to come across the real thing, but Brudermann has pulled it off with exquisite understatement. She has grown seedlings from kernels dropped by the bats, placing them in white pedestals sardonically (or poignantly?) labeled "SMALL ARMS/PYRO" "HIGH EXPL" "FUSE/DET" after the categories of weaponry in the magazines. ..The video is mesmerizing. .. The two-channel presentation, part documentary, part performance piece, creates a diptych of seemingly aleatory realtime juxtaposition that play off each other like a Merce Cunningham pas de deux.' Thomas Micchelli, Brooklyn Rail, March 2005

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