With Test Site, German artist Carsten Holler supplants a gigantic slide as both a sculptural and interactive object within the museum. In an interview with Vincent Honoré, Holler discusses how the limited the use of the slide is in the everyday. When discussing his work, Holler explains his plans for expanding the installation to the everyday. In the present it challenges the function of the museum space, but its future (envisioned) use as transportation throughout London further challenges how social interaction transforms with the introduction of a new element. Test site, in particular, presents the museum as an place to practice elements of Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics. The work collapses an object for admiration with its functionality. Moreover, Holler states, “I see one function of the museum as being a space for experimentation and for testing ideas and concepts that could eventually be realised on a larger scale outside the museum.”
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