Two giant slides are coming to London

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LONDON -- The capital's basically turning into one giant playground.

First we had the grown-up ball pit, then there was the news about a pop-up pignic planned for May, and this weekend the Orbit in the Olympic Park is getting filled with balloons.

Now a pair of giant slides are making their way to London as part of the Southbank Centre's forthcoming survey of contemporary artist Carsten Höller's work.

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Carsten Höller: Decision will open at the centre's Hayward Gallery on June 10, and the centrepiece will feature the giant, twisting slides that will propel visitors from the glass pyramid ceiling to the gallery's entrance level.

Elsewhere, the exhibition will feature a variety of works from across Höller's career, incorporating "mirrors, disconcerting doubles and mysterious objects" and "immersing its visitors in a series of experimental environments reflecting Höller's wide-ranging interest in the nature of consciousness."

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First though, can we just have a go on that slide again?

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