"Mapping La Mancha is a performance project by Australian artist Mark Shorter that maps the space of Don Quixotes La Mancha, Spain onto its antipodean site in New Zealand through a 72-hour endurance action. The simplicity of this task belies a more complex engagement with ideas concerning public sculpture, antipodean identity and masculinity. The work is a nod to Frank Sargesons classic short story The Hole that Jack Dug, which considers the absurdity of one man digging a hole for no purpose in his backyard. Shorter also draws attention to our understanding of the antipodes historically and how Europeans used it as an imaginative space to project their desires and fears."--Publisher description.Shor