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| Carsten Höller exhibition lets visitors bed down for the night at the Hayward | Carsten Höller exhibition lets visitors bed down for the night at the Hayward |
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| The customary “look but don’t touch” etiquette for art exhibitions is about to be torn up at the Carsten Höller show in London, where members of the public will be invited to spend a comfortable if discombobulating night stretched out in one of the works – a bed which will pass the hours of darkness trundling slowly around the Hayward Gallery. | |
| Related: Carsten Höller: ‘It is impossible to travel down a slide without smiling’ | Related: Carsten Höller: ‘It is impossible to travel down a slide without smiling’ |
| The price, at £300 for two beds, is comparable to an expensive London hotel, but even the most luxurious accommodation rarely includes slides which are more than 15 metres high, flying machines, or spectacles which turn the world upside down. | The price, at £300 for two beds, is comparable to an expensive London hotel, but even the most luxurious accommodation rarely includes slides which are more than 15 metres high, flying machines, or spectacles which turn the world upside down. |
| German artist Höller, who originally trained as an agricultural scientist, is renowned for turning art galleries into playgrounds full of adults and children, making them shriek with glee and occasionally terror. Visitors queued for hours in 2007 to go on his giant slides which shot them from the top level to the ground floor of Tate Modern’s enormous Turbine Hall. | German artist Höller, who originally trained as an agricultural scientist, is renowned for turning art galleries into playgrounds full of adults and children, making them shriek with glee and occasionally terror. Visitors queued for hours in 2007 to go on his giant slides which shot them from the top level to the ground floor of Tate Modern’s enormous Turbine Hall. |
| In his latest exhibition, Carsten Holler: Decision, the artist says his Two Roaming Beds (Grey) introduce “a moment of uncertainty”, where the sleepers can’t be sure the place where they close their eyes will be the same place they wake up. | In his latest exhibition, Carsten Holler: Decision, the artist says his Two Roaming Beds (Grey) introduce “a moment of uncertainty”, where the sleepers can’t be sure the place where they close their eyes will be the same place they wake up. |
| Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward and curator of the exhibition, says the show will be “mind-boggling” and promised – or perhaps warned – prospective overnighters: “On awakening they may find that the Hayward will never look the same again.” | Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward and curator of the exhibition, says the show will be “mind-boggling” and promised – or perhaps warned – prospective overnighters: “On awakening they may find that the Hayward will never look the same again.” |
| Bed-time shenanigans will be discouraged by the house lights remaining on all night – though guests will be offered earplugs and eye masks – and 24-hour CCTV monitoring. | Bed-time shenanigans will be discouraged by the house lights remaining on all night – though guests will be offered earplugs and eye masks – and 24-hour CCTV monitoring. |
| No food or drink except water will be allowed into the gallery, though guests will be able to leave for meal breaks. Tea or coffee and the opportunity to take a shower will be offered in the morning. | No food or drink except water will be allowed into the gallery, though guests will be able to leave for meal breaks. Tea or coffee and the opportunity to take a shower will be offered in the morning. |
| The beds are a bargain compared with one of Höller’s previous overnight offerings, when visitors paid €1,000 (£720) to sleep with live reindeer in a disused railway station in Berlin, with featured the unique nightcap of drinking some of the animals’ urine – which the chance that it could be infused with hallucinogenic mushrooms (Höller tried the mushrooms himself and described the effects as “very unpleasant”). | The beds are a bargain compared with one of Höller’s previous overnight offerings, when visitors paid €1,000 (£720) to sleep with live reindeer in a disused railway station in Berlin, with featured the unique nightcap of drinking some of the animals’ urine – which the chance that it could be infused with hallucinogenic mushrooms (Höller tried the mushrooms himself and described the effects as “very unpleasant”). |
| A less exclusive encounter with the beds can be enjoyed in daylight hours, when they will also be roaming the galleries. They will move slowly, at 70cm a minute, with the position of one bed determining that of the other, controlled by a range of navigational systems including radio beacons in the gallery ceiling, and a laser which sweeps the gallery floor to detect obstacles. | A less exclusive encounter with the beds can be enjoyed in daylight hours, when they will also be roaming the galleries. They will move slowly, at 70cm a minute, with the position of one bed determining that of the other, controlled by a range of navigational systems including radio beacons in the gallery ceiling, and a laser which sweeps the gallery floor to detect obstacles. |
| The beds can be booked from Monday to Saturday nights throughout the exhibition, which runs from 10 June to 6 September. Booking opens on Wednesday. | The beds can be booked from Monday to Saturday nights throughout the exhibition, which runs from 10 June to 6 September. Booking opens on Wednesday. |