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Time and the Breathing City

  • Chris Rose (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 170–172)

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TitleTime and the Breathing City
ContributorChris Rose (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.28
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightRose; Chris
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractDuring the early research phase of a large Arts-Sciences-Design collaboration in the UK, I joined a site visit to the Portland stone quarry on the south coast of the UK, part of the area designated as the “Jurassic Coastline” World Heritage Site. I was part of a small team com-prised of meteorologist Dr. Janet Barlow, composer and sound expert Holger Zschenderlein, and myself as artist and designer. We were in the midst of exploring concepts of time, mate-rial evidence, data, and embodied cognition/experience especially connected with complex systems in the atmosphere and our understanding of them.We started our process by visiting the Portland Stone quarry (Portland Bill, Dorset UK). This site presents a kind of “time interface” in two entirely different ways: 1) the collision of a rock formation of equatorial marine origin; Portland Bill itself as part of an “object” traveling from the equator eventually to what is now the south coast of England and embedding in the sedimentary rocks of that place. Here the differences in material properties along the collision zone altered the local erosion behavior and continues to modify the coastline. Places are acces-sible where a cross section of the collision zone can be seen; and 2) places where a vertical slice is visible through the integral, layered record within the Portland stone itself of alternating periods of forestation, shoreline formation, and subsequent reforestation forming a kind of “grammar” of observable repetition.
Page rangepp. 170–172
Print length3 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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