Unilever - London · 2007-02-16 09:53 by Raise Plow
What does that mean, Unilever?
hmmm…. “is an Anglo-Dutch company that owns many of the world’s consumer product brands in foods, beverages, cleaning agents and personal care products. ” Bummer. such a nice name, but seems to just be the people who paid for the art. ?? Or maybe it’s a comment on the everyday-ness of slides. Let’s pretend that. It’s nicer.
I went to the Tate Modern finally to go down the Carsten Holler Unilever Series slides. Good to see a bit of fun going on in the museum. They’re beautiful to look at, but more fun because you get to go down slides in a museum. Something it seems that one shouldn’t be able to do. However, the excitement of doing something you’re not supposed to be doing was overwhelmed by the orderliness of doing it. (stand in line. be given free ticket. wait for alotted time. go upstairs. wait in line. give ticket. listen to instructions. put feet in bag.)
It’s ok though, at least Mr. Holler got away with putting them up. Here is a recording of me going down the highest slide. 5th floor to ground floor. The construction of the slide is such that there are many many welded creases, causing lovely auditory vibrations!
Carsten Holler Slide – 5th floor
