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as such, the real and practical versions of this installation in the urban environment by expanding and making common the processes of risk- and responsibility- taking (as a prerequisite for their function and usage in the real life) will be used in public transportation.
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Test Site represents a challenging experiment premised on dangerous play. Like the risk-taking adventures of childhood it offers itself as a means of testing the ground of your place in the world – of determining the kind of person you wish or dare to be – beginning with the fundamental, yea or nay-saying question of whether to take part or observe: are you a performer or spectator in your everyday life? But the artwork was also an experiment for the artist to see whether such fun slides could feasibly be adapted and integrated into the urban landscape as functional modes of conveying members of the public.A kind of prototype, then, which, if it worked successfully, could serve as a fantastic advertisement for the proposal. As it happens, Holler had already tried out such slides in several real contexts – a small office block in Milan had one in an enclosed courtyard, involving minimal use – but the Turbine Hall installation effectively afforded the possibility of seeing whether it was viable with a mass public on a large scale, and the accompanying catalogue provided several hypothetical instances of its application in London sites, as well as a full-blown feasibility study for a comprehensive implementation of Stratford town centre in east London. The intriguing point about a potential development such as this, between artwork and urban functionality, is the way participatory play, incorporating members of the public, becomes the inherent motor for a radical shift in the culture around pedestrian mobility in the city. As such the artwork’s twin, democratising premises of participants engaging in a process of risk- and responsibility-taking, as a prerequisite of its functioning, stand to become absorbed productively into public spatial practices.
as such, the real and practical versions of this installation in the urban environment by expanding and making common the processes of risk- and responsibility- taking (as a prerequisite for their function and usage in the real life) will be used in public transportation.
Context:
Test Site represents a challenging experiment premised on dangerous play. Like the risk-taking adventures of childhood it offers itself as a means of testing the ground of your place in the world – of determining the kind of person you wish or dare to be – beginning with the fundamental, yea or nay-saying question of whether to take part or observe: are you a performer or spectator in your everyday life? But the artwork was also an experiment for the artist to see whether such fun slides could feasibly be adapted and integrated into the urban landscape as functional modes of conveying members of the public.A kind of prototype, then, which, if it worked successfully, could serve as a fantastic advertisement for the proposal. As it happens, Holler had already tried out such slides in several real contexts – a small office block in Milan had one in an enclosed courtyard, involving minimal use – but the Turbine Hall installation effectively afforded the possibility of seeing whether it was viable with a mass public on a large scale, and the accompanying catalogue provided several hypothetical instances of its application in London sites, as well as a full-blown feasibility study for a comprehensive implementation of Stratford town centre in east London. The intriguing point about a potential development such as this, between artwork and urban functionality, is the way participatory play, incorporating members of the public, becomes the inherent motor for a radical shift in the culture around pedestrian mobility in the city. As such the artwork’s twin, democratising premises of participants engaging in a process of risk- and responsibility-taking, as a prerequisite of its functioning, stand to become absorbed productively into public spatial practices.
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The artwork of the Test Site has a dual theme: people encountering the slide must engage in some risk-taking in order to use it as a functional apparatus, as well as the responsibility that is inherent in assuring some measure of your own safety when taking risks. These inseparable dual themes are what makes the Test Site work. People who use it are caught up in the risk with responsibility nature of it, which will be imprinted on their psyches and will make them receptive to future implementations of these types of sites.
- The artwork of the Test Site has a dual theme: people encountering the slide must engage in some risk-taking in order to use it as a functional apparatus, as well as the responsibility that is inherent in assuring some measure of your own safety when taking risks.
- These inseparable dual themes are what makes the Test Site work.
- People who use it are caught up in the risk with responsibility nature of it, which will be imprinted on their psyches and will make them receptive to future implementations of these types of sites.
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The artwork of the Test Site has a dual theme: people encountering the slide must engage in some risk-taking in order to use it as a functional apparatus, as well as the responsibility that is inherent in assuring some measure of your own safety when taking risks. These inseparable dual themes are what makes the Test Site work. People who use it are caught up in the risk with responsibility nat
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