This is the new exhibit that we did on Saturday at the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.
Weeeeee.
It was extremely scary! They give you elbow pads and a calico matt to slide on. It was pretty nerve wracking after hearing the frase's reaction on the way down, but i think its so traumatic that your brain just blocks it out and all you remember is the adrenalin and the rush! I made silly screeching noises that were a bit embarrassing but everyone else did too. Have video footage of shooting out the end and rolling around giggling at the end!
'For Carsten Höller, the experience of sliding is best summed up in a phrase by the French writer Roger Caillois as a ‘voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind’. The slides are impressive sculptures in their own right, and you don’t have to hurtle down them to appreciate this artwork. What interests Höller, however, is both the visual spectacle of watching people sliding and the ‘inner spectacle’ experienced by the sliders themselves, the state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend.'
Again, again!!!!!
