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Halsey Rodman

Projects

  1. Metronomes

  2. I Am Thinking of a Reverse Sunset
  3. Gradually/We Became Aware/Of a Hum in the Room
  4. Sometimes it is a Murmur, Sometimes it is a Pulse
  5. CC22 @ White Columns*** 
  6. THE ROCK*
  7. International Space Station**

  8. The Moon Bar

  9. The Wind at Night

  10. Triple Trouble

  11. Cave System or Ear Canal

  12. Towards the Possibility of Existing in Three Places at Once

  13. The Wolves from Three Angles

  14. It’s Not Getting Bigger You’re Getting Closer

  15. The Birds

  16. The Navigator

  17. Clouds

  18. The Navigators’ Quarters Must Not Be Disturbed


* with Pam Lins and approximately 24 named and anonymous contributors
** with Pam Lins, Trisha Baga, and 140 contributors
*** with
Ceramics Club

Contact/CV
Mark

THE ROCK



THE ROCK: a collaborative project initiated with Pam Lins including the works of Trisha Baga, Stephanie Barber, Alisa Bones, Ben Browne, Louis Chan, Jennifer Cohen, Sara Coffin, Nicole Eisenman (a temporary action), Jane Fine, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Sophie Grant, Dmitri Hertz, Matt Keegan, Jennie Jieun Lee, Pam Lins, Isabel Mallet, Brandon Ndife, Herb Tam, Halsey Rodman, Saki Sato, Matthew Schrader, Taylor Shields, Kenneth Tam, Tory Thornton, Martha Tuttle, Anjuli Wright, Lu Zhang, and many anonymous contributors

THE ROCK was on view at the corner of Montrose and Manhattan Avenues in Brooklyn from 30 April 2020 - 16 November 2020.

Here’s THE ROCK on the day it appeared:

And here’s how it looked on the day it departed:

Here’s some of what happened in between:

A poster made for THING O15: TRIBUTARY on FORM IV:


A Request-A-Drawing featuring THE ROCK by Pat Palermo for his New York Diary:


Pam Lins and Halsey Rodman on THE ROCK, 27 May 2020: On April 30th, during the Corona Virus shelter-in-place orders, we started a monument on a gigantic rock placed in a parking space on the corner of Montrose and Manhattan Avenues. The rock was unearthed during the excavations for a new high pressure gas line and stayed on the corner after the street work was halted because of the lockdown.

We’ve always thought the city worked so well with its instant, makeshift, and pop-up memorials to events and people such as 9/11, the ghost bikes, Stonewall, Eric Garner, David Bowie, and so many more. These memorials connect lives disrupted and the lives of victims long before a permanent memorial can be constructed. And they are constructed in a completely different time sphere than a permanent marker.

There are sophisticated and slow processes that commission and design permanent memorials in NYC but we grapple with a good number of our past memorials as many of the monuments are torn down and we contemplate who and what should be figured in them. Monuments themselves, in any form, are forever pointing to the next moment in time. As NYC essential construction workers go back to work it may not be long before THE ROCK goes back in the ground.

THE ROCK presented itself as a beautiful foundation so we started a temporary monument to the neighborhood and NYC that reflects on all the types of loss the city is experiencing. At the same time, THE ROCK offers a site for everyday passersby to experience a spontaneously changing view with continuous additions from friends and anonymous contributors. THE ROCK makes space for a range of reactions and emotions, existing somewhere between pedestal, neighborhood monument, found rock, and ephemeral gallery.

Links:
<<The Rock @therockonmontrose, Peter Brock, The Brooklyn Rail, Jul-Aug 2020>>
<<”In Brooklyn, an Artist-decorated Boulder Might Disappear Due to Fracking”, Hakim Bishara, Hyperallergic, 20 October 2020>>
Mark

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