Waterboarding Thrill Ride this August

Steve Powers’ The Waterboarding Thrill Ride
The Arcade at Coney Island, New York, NY: July 26 to late August
Private Performance mid-August

On Saturday, July 26 Creative Time and artist Steve Powers opened The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an animatronic diaroma depicting a prisoner being waterboarded, installed in the Coney Island arcade, presented by Creative Time as part of its national public art initiative Democracy in America: The National Campaign. The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, which will boldly raise awareness of the issue of torture in the United States, will be open all summer long and is available for public viewing. In mid-August, the artist will produce a private performance wherein he and several lawyers will be waterboarded by a trained professional in a secret location in the heart of Coney Island.

The Waterboarding Thrill Ride diorama will be reinstalled in the Democracy in America Convergence Center at the Park Avenue Armory from September 21 to 27.

http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2008/democracy/powers.php