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Giant slides are coming to London!
Other | Wednesday 8th April 2015 | Christina
The Hayward Gallery will play host to a set of giant slides this summer, because the Southbank doesn’t have enough weird shit going on. The slides are actually part of Carsten Höller's ‘Decision’ exhibition, which asks visitors to make choices and embrace a kind of double vision. From June to September you’ll be able to slide down the gallery’s exterior wall, descending from the glass pyramid ceiling to the entrance. Or you can head down the normal way, up to you.
According to the artist, the slides will allow you to experience “an emotional state that is a unique condition somewhere between delight and madness.” Cool. And if the giant slides aren’t enough, Höller has loads of other wacky installations planned, including Flying Machines, which will give you the sensation of soaring above London’s traffic, and Moving Beds, which is pretty self-explanatory actually, some big robot beds will basically stroll around the gallery.
His slide installation was a bit hit at the Tate Modern back in 2006, and we can’t wait to have a go this time round.
