For those of you who can’t make the trip across the pond to experience Carsten Höller’s enormous slide in the the Tate Modern’s vast Turbine Hall in London, there’s still time to see MASS MoCA’s comparably huge Höller installation, Amusement Park (scroll down), to Oct. 30.
This one has more rides but is strictly non-participatory: You can look but not touch. I found the whole thing a bit ghostly and dispiriting. But at least it’s not, as CBS news called the Tate’s thrill ride, “a lawsuit waiting to happen”!
Do crones like CultureGrrl need to submit their bone-density tests before being allowed to land “with a thump” at the bottom of the Tate’s 182-foot slide?