Sensation for Sensation’s Sake Affect and the Temptation of Wow!
This past summer I experienced a moment’s dizziness sitting in a rowboat, looking over the edge of the Hayward Gallery terrace. Gelitin’s Normally, Proceeding Unrestrained With or Without Title (2008) is a boating lake, where visitors navigate a floating pier of barrels and plywood, step awkwardly into boxy little boats and float around for a while, enjoying the view of the South Bank. Last year in this same building I enjoyed getting lost in Anthony Gormley´s fog chamber Blind Light (2007). The previous winter I twice visited Carsten Höller’s slides in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall (Test Site, 2006–2007), plummeting down five stories, stomach tingling all the way. Läs mer