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Jarrod Beck: Geologic Anxiety

  • Anne Reeve (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 180–182)

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TitleJarrod Beck
SubtitleGeologic Anxiety
ContributorAnne Reeve (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.30
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightReeve, Anne
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractIt’s a straightforward proposition, but one just as often overlooked: what’s here is here now, only because of how it was then, and it won’t be this way forever. It seems we are uniquely able to appreciate this when the terrain around us changes, when a storm or an interruption (a quake, a tidal wave) jostles our sense of scale and proportion and their accompanying vari-ables shift. A body shrinks and quiets against an unspeakably broad landscape, rain cracks a bright day into pounding blackness. Yet, how do we measure ourselves against slower, monumental shifts that carve the land around us? What “geologic anxiety” might manifest from our sense of being in a continual, if imperceptible, state of flux? On five acres in the far West Texas desert outpost of Terlingua, artist Jarrod Beck is care-fully enacting a “Disruption Regime” to explore this question. In local intraterrestial parlance, this “disruption” refers to overgrazing that permanently changes the structure of the ground plane, eroding the root system and in turn the ground’s ability to withstand summer rain-storms. These Texas storms then become floods, sending the land on the move and rendering it permanently hostile to many forms of growth. Beck appropriates the term for an experi-mental “ground-drawing,” which he views as a test in marking human action against the top strata of the geology it occupies.
Page rangepp. 180–182
Print length3 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)