Sue de Beer, Ghost, 2011
Painted wood, Plexiglas and metal hardware
16 panels: 79 3/4 x 49 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches 202.6 x 125.7 x 6 cm
Between a test site for sound experiments and the recording studio for the Beatles' Abbey Road record lies Sue de Beer's Haunt Room, a Plexiglas featureless chamber installed on NewYork's 14th street passage of High Line through Friends of the High Line. Opening just days before Halloween, Haunt Room will acts as a public art installation meant to induce feelings of fear in its visitors through
soft lights and the use of low frequency tones inaudible to human hearing called infrasound.
While unable to hear these sounds visitors are still inflicted with an eery aftermath of dizziness,confusing smells, and a sense of some presence. Sue de Beer's project is inspired by the theory of infrasound tested by Goldsmith College's psychology department and the designer Usman Haque. Haunt Room is an experiment for de Beer's fascination with architecture and its effect on memory and suppressed emotions. The opening reception will be held on October 28 and will be on view through December 4.
Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
