Walk under torrential rain and not get wet? Yes you can in London now

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Random International: Rain Room
4 October 2012 - 3 March 2013
The Curve

Tickets:
Admission Free

Random International invites you to experience what it’s like to control the rain. Visitors can choose to simply watch the spectacle or find their way carefully through the rain, putting their trust in the work to the test.

More than the technical virtuosity necessary for its success, the piece relies on a sculptural rigour, with the entire Curve transformed by the monumental proportions of this carefully choreographed downpour and the sound of water.

Random International are known for their distinctive approach to digital-based contemporary art. Their experimental artworks come alive through audience interaction and staged performance.

Random International are represented by Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London and Paris.

In order for visitors to enjoy the sensory experience of Rain Room, there is a limited capacity of 5 people at a time in the rain.

Please be aware that due to the popularity of Rain Room, the queue time currently stands at around two hours, at peak times including evenings and weekends up to three hours.

We advise visitors to arrive as early in the day as possible, a minimum of two hours before closing time. Entry to the queue is subject to the number of visitors already waiting. Anyone arriving later may not be allowed to join the queue as we are unable to admit visitors after the gallery closes. Thank you for your patience.

 

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Rain Room, by Random International, at the Curve Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, in London. The installation is in place and open to the public from 4th October until 3rd March 2013.

 

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Imagine walking through the rain deluge without getting wet. In fact, imagine having the rain part around you, as you walk through it. Fiction? Not quite!
In the Curve at the Barbican Art Gallery, London a new installation by Random International is set, inviting people to – well, try to get wet. The ‘Rain Room’ is a hundred square meters downpour area, set at the end of a curving corridor and left intentionally dark to emphasize dramatic spotlight effect. Rain, as it should, falls vertically in straight shower lines. Members of the public experience the 'Rain Room' art installation by 'Random International' in The Curve at the Barbican Centre on October 3, 2012 in London, England. Oli Scarff/Getty Images

However, as the visitors step into the rain, it senses their bodies and moves around, closing behind them, creating a perfect cylindrical void, as The Guardian describes it, calling it a “startlingly surreal experience.”
The Rain Room is mapped by a series of cameras which create a 3D-map of the location of bodies, switching the water around them. It controls a total of 2,500 litres of water, falling at a rate of 1,000 litres per minute.
If you’re traveling to London, you can control the weather at the Barbican’s Curve gallery until March. Entry is free.

 

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In Singapore, this would be considered worthless and boliao thing to do even though it is easily a Polytechnic-level project.

But because it is made by Ang Moh, I bet they will be lauded as geniuses and PAP would beg them to bring the exhibit in a charge tourists $XXX a pop to see it.

 

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i think it is ingenious, and i dun think sinkies poly student can do that.

 

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Nope, all the parts that he used for presence sensing on this project are commercially available, except of course the tank and structure.

But I have to say, that the idea for this design has had to be inspired, and if anything, that is what SG students and their lecturers will sorely lack.