Artist Carsten Höller has installed two new slides in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The longest is 56 metres long and drops a nerve jangling 27m.
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Not Art in my opinion.
Just good wholesome fun that's lost when professionalism kicks in to your life and your not "supposed" to be a child anymore.
I'm teaching my manager that being professional isn't about not having any fun and not being as young as you want to be.
I brought decorate your own ginger bread men to work for a "team socialising and fun building" exercise, which she wasn't even slightly jollied about. Everyone else was though :-)
I like to think of myself as a pioneering motivator!
No, not Mr Motivator before anyone says it, and no, i don't wear lycra/spandex all that often.
I think the installation is more about freeing the inner child and letting people remember, invoking thought process through adrenaline and endorphins rather than through other means of logical and adult processes.
Good fun :-)
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Depends on what the function of art is to you, I suppose. For me it's to evoke an emotion, get you to think to yourself for a moment, or even just enjoy a thing for what it is---then it might be art.
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I don't think it's art, but i saw it on the news last night and it looked like fun...
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