THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

A 38-foot-by-30-foot crater, eight feet deep, extends almost to the walls of the gallery, surrounded by a 14-inch ledge of concrete floor.  A sign at the door cautions, THE INSTALLATION IS PHYSICALLY DANGEROUS AND INHERENTLY INVOLVES THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH; intrepid viewers can, all the same, inch their way around the hole.  Fischer’s pit is titled You, and it took ten days to build, costing around $250,000 of Brown’s money.

Saltz/Artnet, 2007