From the 10th October 2006 to 9 April 2007 the Tate Modern plays host to the latest exhibition by visual artist Carsten Holler.

Entitled The Unilever Series, the exhibition takes the form of 5 slides from various floors of the gallery to ground level. Visitors are encouraged to slide down, experiencing a "state of simultaneous delight and anxiety that you enter as you descend".

The installation has divided critics. Charlotte Higgins writes that the "brilliant" experience robs you of your dignity and leaves you "infantilised into a rumpled, red-faced, giggling tomfool". The Tate Modern director Vincente Todoli says the installation has a serious philosophical point "dealing with the verticality of the space".

However, Johnathan Jones of the Guardian isn't so sure. "To a certain kind of cultural pessimist, it might seem this is the final folly of a populist museum - to just turn itself into a chic fairground." Martin Gayford, writing for Bloomberg, comments that "they are among the less interesting contributions to this patchy sequence of massive sculptural projects". He even goes as far as to suggest that those seeking mind-bending thrills and the existential alteration from the process would be better served going to Alton Towers.

Living in Scotland, I have been unable to attend this exhibition. It doesn't inspire me to travel to London and visit it. Why would I when I could go to my local park, which has such slides (all be it on a smaller scale) or my local pool, which has a 50m water slide.

I'm sure The Cantilever Series is fun. But is it really art?