http://www.planetware.com/picture/colorado-springs-garden-of-the-gods-us-col130.htm

Actually you are very free to call the piece however you like, but don’t forget “Levitated Mass” is not a specific title for this piece. He made several pieces under this name, since 1969, and in a way, even Displaced/Replaced (1969) might also be called Levitated Mass. You shouldn’t also forget that Heizer doesn’t like title very much. Many pieces are “untitled” and usually, titles he gives are very descriptive ones. That’s all.

Nevertheless “Rock Star” is quite a good name if one think about the musical context of the first pieces made by Heizer. But the spectacular dimension of big 60/70′s gigs (with their big crowds) is maybe a little away from Heizer’s conception of art. He said a few weeks ago “I make static art, not dynamic art” (LA Times, May 2012), and his art seems rather near non-event art indeed, even the moving of the boulder was quite an incredible event.

Heizer’s art is a Long-term Art (http://blog.longnow.org/02012/02/29/heizers-mass-takes-the-scenic-route/) That’s why it is not very easy to understand it, especially when one lives in a “fast-society” like ours where everything seems planned in order to focus only on the present time.

But if one want absolutely to find a pseudo, another name, another title for the piece (which is absurb according to us), Levitated Mass may be called the “Philosophical Rock” (http://obsart.blogspot.fr/2012/07/time-at-work-340t-340g-displaced.html) according to us. Just an open idea.

Long life to the Rock.

You arty types will do anything to support the absurd.