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Ride a piece of art! London gallery show features rideable exhibits
When does a slide become a piece of art? How about when it’s part of an exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery? Carsten Höller: Decision, which opened as part of the Southbank Centre’s summer programme on June 10, features a succession of intriguing works, many of them participatory and immersive. Think of it almost as a leftfield fun house or walk-through attraction.
The exhibition brings together “kinetic sculptures”, videos, installations and light works that are designed to profoundly re-¬-orientate awareness of time and space. Visitors need to constantly reflect on the choices and decisions they make, beginning with how they enter the gallery: two separate entrances are available, each providing a different route through the first part of the exhibition. Pill Clock, a ceiling--mounted timepiece that will drop over one million pills onto the gallery floor during the course of the exhibition, poses a different kind of
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conundrum for visitors: the installation includes a drinking fountain for those visitors who decide to take one of the pills and face its unknown effects. Other highlights of the show include Two Flying Machines installed on one of the Hayward’s outdoor terraces, opposite Waterloo Bridge, offering visitors the sensation of soaring above city traffic; The Pinocchio Effect, giving visitors the uncanny sensation that their nose is growing; while Two Roaming Beds comprises a pair of robotic beds that roam the galleries in slow motion. Throughout the exhibition, recurring motifs of doubles, twins, forking paths and mirrored reflections lead visitors to question how they go about choosing between things that on the surface, at least, seem almost identical. The exhibition reaches its climax by presenting a choice of dramatic ways for guests to exit including climbing up through the gallery’s glass pyramid roof lights and descending via one of two new Isomeric Slides, stainless steel spiral constructions provided by the German ride and slide manufacturer Wiegand. According to Höller, the work is a device for “experiencing an emotional state that is a unique condition somewhere between delight and madness.”
“Carsten Höller is an exceptional artist, whose playful and daring work transforms the inside and outside of the Hayward Gallery,” notes Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly. “He creates spaces and situations which question familiar forms of perception and we’re delighted that thousands of people will be able to experience his fun--filled and thoughtful installations, as one of the highlights of our programme this summer.”
Decision continues until September 6. The Hayward Gallery is part of the Southbank Centre complex, which also includes the Royal Festival Hall. Located just footsteps from the London Eye, hopefully a few tourists will pop in this summer to enjoy an attraction with a difference.
southbankcentre.co.uk/carstenholler JULY 2015
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