Sunday, June 03, 2007

Visual artist seeks volunteers to live 'upside down'

A visual artist wants volunteers to turn their world upside down.

Carsten Holler is looking for a group of people to wear special goggles, which makes everything appear inverted, for eight days.

The volunteers will live together in Manchester and record their experiences before appearing on stage at the city's International Festival.

Upsidedown goggles

The group's vision will remain upside down, even after the goggles are removed, for a short period.

The volunteers will have assistants who will help them live with inverted vision, but will have to wear the goggles all the time.

Blindfolds will be worn for sleeping, to ensure they are unable to see anything the right way up, which could revert their vision.

Holler is best known for his Test Site installation at London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall.

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