The work was originally shown in the Duveen Galleries of what is now Tate Britain. It was abruptly closed, because Tate staff 'were not able to cope with the frantic means of emotional release that the exhibition became. An orderly pandemonium was expected, but pandemonium broke out,' reported the Times in 1971. The Guardian’s reporter in 1971 noted: 'Some of the 1,500 visitors became so intoxicated by [the] opportunities that they went around "jumping and screaming" to quote the exhibitions keeper, Mr Michael Compton. They went berserk on the giant see-saws, and they loosened the boards on other exhibits by trampling on them ... "It was just a case of exceptionally exuberant or energetic participation."
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