Are you lost in an invisible maze?

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Jeppe Hein's Invisible Maze is currently in action at the Statens Museum for Kunst (Danish national art museum) in Copenhagen. Each day of the week has a different maze pattern and you wear a headset that vibrates if you walk into an invisible wall.

There didn't seem to be a point to the maze, no apparent end, so I chose to head towards the opposite visible wall, stumbling around sounds and changing direction frequently.

After that, alone in what looked like an empty room, Joe and I tried to reach each other, navigating through the buzzing. At times, we were separated by an invisible wall, one step in front of us. Eventually, we avoided the walls long enough to find each other again and left the maze, collapsed on beanbags and read art books at the gallery.

A few months ago, I traversed a different type of invisible maze on a street in Southampton - Seth Kriebel's This Way, That Way. For that maze, you were given a set of cards with an arrow on and you were supposed to walk three steps in the direction each card told you to, until you reached the centre of the maze. At that point you were told to walk backwards, following the cards again, until you got to the exit. I never reached the exit.

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