45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet: Project for Extraterrestrials No. 3

1990

Realized at Pourrières, Aix-en-Provence, July 7, 1990, 9:00 p.m., approximately 3 seconds

Gunpowder (50 kg), fuse (800 m), dried grass (600 kg), and paper pulp (500 kg)

Land area: 10,000 sq. m

Commissioned by Les Domaines de l’Art, Aix-en-Provence [Ephemeral]

Photo by Wataru Kai, courtesy Cai Studio.