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New art installation - a nightclub
Ellen Widdup18 Nov 2008
THE artist whose twisting slides delighted millions at Tate Modern, has come up with a new "art experience" - a nightclub.
Carsten Höller will open the temporary venue - themed around the Congo - in the Angel, Islington. His work aims to involve the public and the latest venture merges two different cultures and two types of music.
The club's dancefloor, along with the DJ booth, will revolve between two areas of the space, according to whether the DJ is playing Western or Congolese music. Höller, 47, said his intention was to "export my so-called artistic ideas out of the museum and gallery into a more lively context".
All profits will go to a charity for Congolese rape victims.
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"export my so-called artistic ideas out of the museum and gallery into a more lively context": a french chap, called de Florence, did something similar back in 1984, with a 25 TV sets installation on the dance floor of The Fridge club in Brixton, followed in 1985 by a 100 TV sets installation all around the dance floor of the new larger Fridge club.
- Chaz, London, UK, 18/11/2008 13:03
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