Dream House is a light and sound installation created by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, located at 275 Church Street. Mercer Labs Museum of Art and Technology is located at 21 Dey Street.
For those who take interest in the evolution of that strange architectural genus known as the “immersive exhibition,” New York in the 2020s must feel the same as the shores of the Orinoco felt to early nineteenth-century botanists. You can’t cross town without fishing some new species out of your waders. I spotted one just yesterday, advertised on the subway’s blinding display screens. Balloon Story New York: A Whimsical Journey through a Balloon Wonderland. POV footage sped through varicolored chambers of over 600,000 balloons at the Park Avenue Armory, promising “Innovative Artistry” and “Joy for All Ages.” I had to use my phone to verify that this was not its near cousin, the Balloon Museum, at Seaport’s Pier 36. The Museum closed in January. The Story, improbably, was a creature of its own.
The appeal of “immersive experience” has long puzzled me, p…