I couldn't help thinking of Maddie Leach's AndalucĂa 2007 project earlier this year at Te Tuhi. With a little help from some contractors and bored.com, She dug a hole in the gallery courtyard and emerged in a Spanish olive grove. You can try it for yourself here by zooming into your chosen hole location and then clicking on the map. If LAKE TAUPO really had no bottom, you could swim to a strange looking island just out of CASA DE PERABAD, halfway between Seville and Madrid.
The China Syndrome is about a nuclear plant on THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania. According to bored.com's hole-digging service, a meltdown would actually leak through to HERE, in the ocean about 1000km south-west of Perth. So we're not so safe from nuclear catastrophe in the South Pacific after all.
Image: Maddie Leach, AndalucĂa (detail), 2007. Excavated hole (1m x 2m), earth, tarpaulin, fencing mesh and waratahs.
Image: Maddie Leach, AndalucĂa (detail), 2007. Excavated hole (1m x 2m), earth, tarpaulin, fencing mesh and waratahs.
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