Barrels of Love
If life in the metropolis creates loneliness and alienation, Coney Island counterattacks with the Barrels of Love.
Two horizontal cylinders - mounted in line - revolve slowly in opposite directions. At either end a small staircase leads up to the entrance.
One feeds men into the machine, the other women.
It is impossible to remain standing.
Men and women fall on top of each other.
The unrelenting rotation of the machine fabricates synthetic intimacy between people who never otherwise have met.
Delirious New York