SHOOM

In my 1997 solo exhibition at Alexandre de Folin Gallery, I created an experiential chamber caller SHOOM (an onomatopoeic Slavic word for white noise). I filled the entire gallery room with several inches of water and plunged it into darkness so that the viewer’s only visual clue as to the experience was the rippling reflection of the cold blue light of a television set that was set above the water level with its screen turned to face the far wall.  The surface of the water was slightly stirred by a submerged pump, so the reflected light flickered and caused viewers to falsely identify the sound of television static as rushing water.