半月

The new work ‘Half Moon’ by Abigail DeVille utilizes found materials and simultaneously bears witness to and transforms public neglect, decay, and marginalization. Resonating with the site’s historic role as ferry slip and landfill, as well as its new position in a post-industrial neighborhood, the sculpture addresses issues of migration and immigration.

“In 1609, a ship called the Half Moon (translated from the Dutch “De Halve Maen”) arrived off the coast of what would eventually become New York City. As the captain of the vessel, Henry Hudson, sailed up the river that would one day bear his name, he encountered some of the 10,000 or so indigenous people living on either bank. In his journals, Hudson reportedly described them as “clothed in mantles of feathers and robes of fur, the women clothed in hemp, red copper tobacco pipes, and other things of copper they did wear about their necks.” Tellingly, Hudson wrote not of people but possessions. It is fitting that the story of New York City begins with a man who saw land, objects, and profit, but not human beings.” -Isaac Kaplan
カタログ
今年、ソクラテス・スクリプト・パークの創設30周年を記念して、同施設は、土地を物理的および象徴的に変貌させるアーティストのコミッションおよびプロジェクトのシリーズ「LANDMARK」を開催します。かつて産業廃棄物置場や不法投棄場所であったソクラテスは、パブリックアート、地域社会の参加、そして都市の発見のためのニューヨーク市随一の彫刻公園およびソーシャルスペースへと変貌を遂げました。「LANDMARK」は、場所という概念が、社会的・生態学的構造、維持管理と管理運営、そして時間を通じた進化と密接に結びついていることに直接焦点を当てています。.

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