Techno-grandiosity meets exercise in futility: an art installation, so-called, by Michael Heizer titled Levitated Mass. This stunt involves moving a 340 ton boulder from the edge of the desert at Riverside, California, to a display site at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by means of a gigantic steel conveyor vehicle.
The art object in its natural state.
Preparing for the journey….
Rollin’, rollin’ rollin’…
The Route of Levitated Mass
To read more about this stupid fucking waste of effort and money
visit the official website for this stunt, and also the website of its patron, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).Shout out of thanks to Christopher Tallman for nominating this humdinger.
This art installation reminds me one I read about, where a Texas oil drilling magnate sponsored drilling a hole into the earth one mile deep, (using his equipment) with a corresponding alloy rod one mile in length suspended inside it. You could see the tip of the rod in the cap of the hole. Just sooo meaningful, don’t you think?
Techno-grandiosity meets exercise in futility: an art installation, so-called, by Michael Heizer titled Levitated Mass. This stunt involves moving a 340 run 3 ton boulder from the edge of the desert at Riverside, California, to a display site at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art by means of a gigantic steel conveyor vehicle.