Concrete, wood, 4 wooden seats, 4 speakers, 17-min looped audio, audio equipment.  Dimensions variable. Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York. 2021. 

Taking up research into the New York City harbor islands — including the nearby Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island) — as former sites for the quarantined, incarcerated, and inferm, Rest Cure is an audio and sculpture installation, invites visitors to recline and listen.  With a view across the park to the East River,  Manhattan, and Roosevelt Island, the poem heard airs our related sense of alienation under COVID but transforms it to an expanded network of care.  The project asks, can the withdrawal from society that the pandemic caused have created a new political subjectivity, one that acknowledges our entangled nature with all others?

Research images from Welfare (Roosevelt) Island in the 1940s below

AUDIO LINK HERE