The New Tate Modern Turbine Hall Installation..... - erutufon|nofuture

**Orang Utan** · 9th October 2006

.....is a big slide.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibi...r/default.shtm

A work by Carsten Holler.

I'm gonna check it out some time this week

**Orang Utan** · 9th October 2006

**V Knid esq** · 9th October 2006

Can you go inside it?

**Orang Utan** · 9th October 2006

Apparently so. My friend Toby (Bleep43) went on Saturday but apparently they only let him on the small one. I think it will be fully open from tomorrow though.

**V Knid esq** · 9th October 2006

Are they slides??

**spoon** · 9th October 2006

if you write on them with crayons it makes them faster you know.

**Orang Utan** · 9th October 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by V Knid esq

Are they slides??

YES!

**Loz** · 9th October 2006

I want to go on the big one, looks like it'll be both great fun and slightly scary

**grobelaar** · 9th October 2006

Woopee - everytime there's a big installation the urge to climb all over it is massive. When they had all those white boxes - it was really funny seeing kids climbing on the boxes - and the curators trying to stop them from doing so.

kams · 9th October 2006

that big one looks painful!

JE:5 · 9th October 2006

There is this one in Leicester

Got really excited about it when they first built it but it turned out to be something of an anticlimax as it wasn't very slidy at all.

kams · 9th October 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by JE:5

There is this one in Leicester

Got really excited about it when they first built it but it turned out to be something of an anticlimax as it wasn't very slidy at all.

Lol

that brings back memories..

**Loz** · 9th October 2006

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Originally Posted by BBC Website

Artist Carsten Holler said his work, Test Site, was a "playground for the body and the brain". He says slides can help combat mental health problems.

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Holler, 44, has constructed slides before, including one at the Prada headquarters in Milan connecting boss Miuccia Prada's office and the car park.

I want a slide from my office straight to my car. Make going home at the end of the day even better.

**Orang Utan** · 9th October 2006

Red Bull's London office has a slide between floors:

http://positivesharing.com/2006/10/1...ool-workplaces

**Daddys Girl** · 9th October 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by grobelaar

Woopee - everytime there's a big installation the urge to climb all over it is massive. When they had all those white boxes - it was really funny seeing kids climbing on the boxes - and the curators trying to stop them from doing so.

Those kids were so cute when they were trying to climb on them. Even I wanted a go....

I want to go on the slide!

gen-eral · 9th October 2006

Oh my god i'm so there next week on my day off! How fun

thepigjockey · 9th October 2006

Getting people into art galleries is great, as is encouraging people to think about art, but imo if I was a client and I arrived at an office which contained a slide I'd proably walk straight out. I hate all that stuff. If you want your staff to enjoy their work there are surely plenty of more direct ways of doing this.

edit- bah humbug, grumble grumble etc etc. This can probably all be traced back to the time when I was working in Soho and the office looked impressive- flatscreens, big glass tables and reception desk, fancy lighting etc. but the management of the place was an absolute shambles. Do they expect the client is going to say "Oh look! Fancy glass table!/slides for adults!" let's forget about the fact that you just fucked us over and ripped us off..."

**Loz** · 9th October 2006

what if your office was both a nice place to work AND had a slide?

thepigjockey · 9th October 2006

No slide. No niceness. When anyone asked me how I was between 2002-2005 I would have told them I HATE MY FUCKING JOB! Pleased to be out of it.

**Loz** · 9th October 2006

see, if they had a slide, you could have used that to get out of it. Much more fun.

thepigjockey · 9th October 2006

They had a sofabed. And wooden floors. And a fucking TOASTER. JEEEESUS. Oh, and a shower. Wankers. I'm still upset about it now.

**Loz** · 9th October 2006

they wouldn't even let us have a toaster and kettle where I work right now. They even complained when someone brought a fridge in.

**grobelaar** · 9th October 2006

Get down there quick folks - some kid is bound to hurt himself within a few weeks of the slides opening - and they'll be closed to the public toot sweet...

They'll have to put those signs up that say...

"Please do not touch the artwork as even the grease from your fingers can damage the surface and materials"

The ultimate cruelty...

I remembered that had them up for Anish Kapoor big trumpet thingie and the stupid thing about that was it was clearly made using the same technology that is used to make massive marquees, hot air balloons and the like and you see all the finger and hand marks from all teh sweaty labourers that had actually had to make the thing.

But there we were not touching cos a bit of grease from my fingers etc etc. I felt like sticking a big bit of bubblegum on the thing...

darius_Er · 9th October 2006

I like tate modern. i spent there a lot of time

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Orang Utan hard to please anal Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Brixton Posts: 8,538	The New Tate Modern Turbine Hall Installation..... .....is a big slide. http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibi...r/default.shtm A work by Carsten Holler. I'm gonna check it out some time this week ........................... I like small speakers. I like tall speakers Power from the needle to the plastic
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Orang Utan hard to please anal Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Brixton Posts: 8,538	........................... I like small speakers. I like tall speakers Power from the needle to the plastic
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V Knid esq Erutufon Subscriber Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Lahndan Taaaahn Posts: 13,439	Can you go inside it? ...........................
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Orang Utan hard to please anal Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Brixton Posts: 8,538	Apparently so. My friend Toby (Bleep43) went on Saturday but apparently they only let him on the small one. I think it will be fully open from tomorrow though. ........................... I like small speakers. I like tall speakers Power from the needle to the plastic
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V Knid esq Erutufon Subscriber Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Lahndan Taaaahn Posts: 13,439	Are they slides?? ...........................
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spoon & Co. Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 4,604	if you write on them with crayons it makes them faster you know.
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Loz ......................... Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 7,630	I want to go on the big one, looks like it'll be both great fun and slightly scary ........................... "If you can't tell what genre the track you're making is you should have your instruments taken away and made to stand in the corner."
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grobelaar The Thread King Join Date: May 2002 Location: In Exile! Posts: 5,480	Woopee - everytime there's a big installation the urge to climb all over it is massive. When they had all those white boxes - it was really funny seeing kids climbing on the boxes - and the curators trying to stop them from doing so. ........................... http://www.no-future.com/vbulletin/r...user=grobelaar
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kams DJ 10p Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: londoon Posts: 5,392	that big one looks painful!
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JE:5 On the edge of darkness Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Bristol Posts: 5,957	There is this one in Leicester Got really excited about it when they first built it but it turned out to be something of an anticlimax as it wasn't very slidy at all.
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gen-eral rant face Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: sneezeland Posts: 1,341	Oh my god i'm so there next week on my day off! How fun
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thepigjockey whytrance?™ Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 5,953	Getting people into art galleries is great, as is encouraging people to think about art, but imo if I was a client and I arrived at an office which contained a slide I'd proably walk straight out. I hate all that stuff. If you want your staff to enjoy their work there are surely plenty of more direct ways of doing this. edit- bah humbug, grumble grumble etc etc. This can probably all be traced back to the time when I was working in Soho and the office looked impressive- flatscreens, big glass tables and reception desk, fancy lighting etc. but the management of the place was an absolute shambles. Do they expect the client is going to say "Oh look! Fancy glass table!/slides for adults!" let's forget about the fact that you just fucked us over and ripped us off..."
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darius_Er Ã³smesmak Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: sil Esia Posts: 133	I like tate modern. i spent there a lot of time
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