Coney Island got a new sort of ride this weekend. As part of a Creative Time initiative called “Democracy in America: The National Campaign,” the artist Steve Powers opened The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an animatronic diorama that depicts a prisoner being waterboarded, reports the New York Times. The work is installed in a former photo booth styled as a jail cell on 12th Street; viewers can pay $1 outside to see the scene through bars. “Humor has long been a strategy for speaking the unspeakable,” said Anne Pasternak, the president and artistic director of Creative Time, in a statement, “and it is vital that we as a nation begin a dialogue about the implications of waterboarding.” The work is on view through the summer. In mid-August Powers and several lawyers will undergo the interrogation technique, administered by a trained professional, in a private performance in a secret location in Coney Island.