ZEE - Kurt Hentschläger - Fact Nov 2011.

Well this wasn't like any exhibition I had ever been too in my whole life as an artist. Being in the Fact gallery I often expect something different, something a bit more quirky you might say. Well different is what this is. I visited ZEE with a couple of my friends to see what the fuss was about, a lot of people I had spoken to has recommended me to go. Its a visual exhibition based on sensory overload. On arrival you had to fill in a disclaimer which immediately had me a bit worried. After we filled our forms in we were waiting to enter the exhibition only to be informed by a member of staff that someone had fainted in the exhibition so our viewing was going to be late, this added even more anxiety and worry to our wait. On entering the room you are immediately engulfed in smoke and you cannot see past arms length and it is hard to breathe, intense strobe lighting was flashing around the smoke filled room immediately disorientating me. I felt strange, like I was in a giant electric cloud with flashing lightning like shapes and intense noise surrounding me and trapping me. Even though I knew my friends were right behind me i felt like i was on my own travelling into the nothingness that the smoke filled room was. Although the experience was one of the most surreal things I've come across, I think the anticipation and anxiety I had before entering made in un-enjoyable for me. One of my friends described it as 'heaven' I had to disagree, if that was heaven what is hell like?