Bounce Below: why a trampoline fun palace in a Welsh mine is pure art

Blaenau Ffestiniog's slate mine has been turned into a trampoline theme park for the summer. It's a marvellous installation and a long way from your average cave tour

Through the ages people have crawled into pitch-black subterranean spaces, holding torches to light their way, leaving behind them red, ochre handprints, charcoal drawings of mammoths and trampolines?

Cave art in the 21st century has got interactive. Let's call it art even if the creators make no such highfalutin claim. For art now is getting very close to play, and why not? The widespread feeling that video games are "art" is essentially a claim that art and play are the same thing, which perhaps they are.

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