Carsten Holler - Tate Museum
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Featured at London’s Tate Museum earlier this year, these giant human slides certainly drew the crowds. The artist behind them — Carsten Höller — sees them as being an even bigger event bursting out of our buildings and winding through our cities. Höller wonders: ‘How might a daily dose of sliding affect the way we perceive the world? Can slides become part of our experiential and architectural life?’. We don’t know the answers, but we’re looking forward to a time when the suits of this world have to let their hair down just by leaving the building.

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Lang said | 16 August, 2007

Can people really slide down those things?? They look real shiny…. wonder if you’d get a metallic bum afterwards….

Jimi said | 17 August, 2007

HAhaha i had a go of this off the top floor and some other level.. it was rad. love the tate.

Jimi said | 17 August, 2007

oh.. also.. there apparently was another amazing one with a huge SUN in there and all the londers came in and would just plonk themselves down under this massive fake sun thing.

Lang said | 22 August, 2007

that sounds amazing! well sun baking under a fake sun sounds more interesting then sun baking in a park?!

Jimi said | 22 August, 2007

Well remember it is London… London and the sun have a very on-off relationship (especially this summer… if you cann callit that)

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