London’s ‘Screamatorium’ is one way to self-soothe as office tension (and therapy costs) mount
, it may be no surprise that there is apparently mounting demand for appropriate places in which to let loose.
She recalls a recent customer: “She spent five minutes smashing, 40 minutes sitting on the floor crying – and she actually left smiling.” He had anticipated that the target market would be students; in fact it has proved overwhelmingly to be 30- to 50-year-olds, working full-time. Instead, the function of the scream pot – by the Iranian-Canadian artist, Babak Golkar, from his 2014 series Time to Let Go – was demonstrated by video. “It was not what I intended,” says Golkar from Vancouver. “You have to be able to put your face against that object, and try it.”
“It’s such a basic thing, to scream: if a child screams in public, nobody turns their head – but if I scream in public they’ll call the authorities,” he says. “I was really interested to engage the public – to offer them a platform, or an excuse.”
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