The Crack

This is the great almighty crack in the Tate Modern. I hear it's gone now, this picture was taken a good while back. The green flamboyant shoes are Hugh's and the more normal shoes belong to one Mr John Hearne. The crack is a massive crack, surprise surprise, which has been cut into the floor of the turbine room of the Tate Modern art gallery. It's really long and stretches the length of the room. It's quite deep in parts, i'd say around 3 or 4 feet. There's great mystery around how it was constructed, there were massive curtains hung around the turbine room so noone could see. The building is 5 floors high and the turbine room stretches up to the top on around 1/3 of the building. I'm not sure how they could have driven the crack in without disturbing the foundations, so chances are the Tate is a ticking time bomb at the moment.

The previous installation in the turbine room was the slides, which were, surprise surprise, 3 big slides. One of the walls of the turbine room is glass and looks into each of the 5 floors. On the 1st, 3rd and 5th I think, they started yellow slides which curved down to the turbine floor. It was very funny to see people shooting down them and you could hear them yeeping as they went, but I much prefer the crack. Loads more people can enjoy it at the same time. The second photo shows loads of people milling around a fork in the crack. Hundreds of people were in the room strolling around, pretending to fall in, seeing how far they could get their arms and legs in, etc. It's brilliant!