Recommendation Number Two. This work is being exhibited at the Architecture Forum, the location of which I briefly covered before. Well, it's hard to say whether it's more of an exhibit or a performance... I heard a strange "gagagaga" kind of sound coming from a room inside, and when I took a look, it was packed with people and I couldn't really see.

So I pushed my way through and looked inside, where there was a man lying face down with a hard machine on his back. In front of him is an old CRT television, which is showing footage of him doing a run of a skeleton sledding course. Basically, the idea is that you can experience skeleton sledding virtually. But it's not like you can feel the centrifugal force at a curve or sense how fast you're going with the wind or anything. On closer inspection, the machine he has on his back making the "gagagaga" noise turned out to be plucking a guitar string with a propeller.

The artist, who completed a full run of the skeleton course with this guitar strapped to his back, is a bit of a dunce.

This form, this ridiculousness, and this happy, wild-child artist with the brain power of a ten-year-old but who is already thirty-three... it was so adorable I could hardly stand it. Apparently Stephan Pirker herds cows in the mountains. That seems to be his sport of choice to take the place of skeleton sledding in the summer...

There's no way I could have gone without experiencing this thing for myself. So I gave it a try. The guitar weighed thirty kilos. Under the pressure of the guitar, I started sliding, and within ten seconds I was finding it hard to breathe. You should have seen how pathetic and shameful my face looked!! Ah, it was truly shameful. When I'd finished sliding, my neck and shoulders were hurting like hell. Really, it was like being in a one-man camel crutch for three full minutes. Stephan was laughing as he watched me, but I couldn't bring myself to respond, having had all the energy drained out of me by his work...

Enjoy this artwork.