The Art Of Water, Movement & Sound

For this large-scale installation, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot transforms the Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a living sound environment. Across the space, circular basins filled with water hold floating ceramic bowls. Gently carried by subtle currents, they drift, meet, and separate - creating soft, unpredictable chimes as they collide.

About The Installation 

The title Clinamen refers to the unpredictable movement of atoms - a small, unseen deviation that leads to endless variation. That idea runs through every part of this installation. What you hear at any moment will never quite happen the same way again. Visitors are invited to wander, pause, sit, and listen. To notice how sound changes as you move. To experience the space not as something fixed, but something alive - always forming and always dissolving.

Nothing is rehearsed. Nothing is repeated. The work is shaped entirely by chance: the motion of water, the weight of objects, the architecture of the space itself. The result is a constantly shifting soundscape that you don't watch so much as move through.