Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores
As a branch of geomorphology, geochronology determines the ages of sediment, fossils, and rocks, thereby assembling a geologic planetary history. As a geochronological dénouement, the proposed geological epoch of the Anthropocene may indicate the figural moment in geologic time when human activity i...
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ftunivglasthes:oai:theses.gla.ac.uk:81372 2023-05-15T16:51:39+02:00 Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores Rawlings, Angela Marie 2020 pdf http://theses.gla.ac.uk/81372/ https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81372/1/2020rawlingsphd.pdf en eng https://theses.gla.ac.uk/81372/1/2020rawlingsphd.pdf Rawlings, Angela Marie (2020) Performing geochronology in the anthropocene: multiple temporalities of North Atlantic foreshores. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. NX Arts in general QE Geology Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2020 ftunivglasthes 2022-09-15T22:09:18Z As a branch of geomorphology, geochronology determines the ages of sediment, fossils, and rocks, thereby assembling a geologic planetary history. As a geochronological dénouement, the proposed geological epoch of the Anthropocene may indicate the figural moment in geologic time when human activity inscribed itself into sediment across the planet. This dissertation offers an artist’s account of practice-as-research investigating how to perform geochronology in the Anthropocene along North Atlantic foreshores. As sites prone to the geologic acts of deposition, erosion, and intrusion, foreshores provide an impermanent surface on which to interrogate the deep time, hidden knowledges, and climate crisis affiliated with the Anthropocene’s inaugural narrative. Geochronologists partly comprising a working group to give the Anthropocene its formal designation note that “[t]he expression of the Anthropocene in the environmentally sensitive coastal systems [including beaches, tidal flats, and deltas]… represents a diverse patchwork of deposits and lacunae that reflect local interplays of natural and anthropogenic forces” (Zalasiewicz, Williams, and Waters 2014). Climate change also places foreshores as central players impacted by storminess, glacial melt, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification. Produced as the book Sound of Mull, the artist’s performance scores were developed through artistic practice-as-research and offer strategies for experiential knowledge acquisition through direct or imagined engagement with the multiple temporalities and more-than-human co-constituents of North Atlantic foreshores. Participatory, experiential engagement may sensitize people to the hidden geochronologies of everyday life. This dissertation is situated within an interdisciplinary practice-as-research methodology integral to geopoetics praxis, interweaving research from performance studies, geology, human geography, and archaeology. Detailing foreshore performances enacted in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden between ... Thesis Iceland North Atlantic Ocean acidification University of Glasgow: Glasgow Theses Service Mull ENVELOPE(-63.058,-63.058,-74.536,-74.536) Norway |
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As a branch of geomorphology, geochronology determines the ages of sediment, fossils, and rocks, thereby assembling a geologic planetary history. As a geochronological dénouement, the proposed geological epoch of the Anthropocene may indicate the figural moment in geologic time when human activity inscribed itself into sediment across the planet. This dissertation offers an artist’s account of practice-as-research investigating how to perform geochronology in the Anthropocene along North Atlantic foreshores. As sites prone to the geologic acts of deposition, erosion, and intrusion, foreshores provide an impermanent surface on which to interrogate the deep time, hidden knowledges, and climate crisis affiliated with the Anthropocene’s inaugural narrative. Geochronologists partly comprising a working group to give the Anthropocene its formal designation note that “[t]he expression of the Anthropocene in the environmentally sensitive coastal systems [including beaches, tidal flats, and deltas]… represents a diverse patchwork of deposits and lacunae that reflect local interplays of natural and anthropogenic forces” (Zalasiewicz, Williams, and Waters 2014). Climate change also places foreshores as central players impacted by storminess, glacial melt, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification. Produced as the book Sound of Mull, the artist’s performance scores were developed through artistic practice-as-research and offer strategies for experiential knowledge acquisition through direct or imagined engagement with the multiple temporalities and more-than-human co-constituents of North Atlantic foreshores. Participatory, experiential engagement may sensitize people to the hidden geochronologies of everyday life. This dissertation is situated within an interdisciplinary practice-as-research methodology integral to geopoetics praxis, interweaving research from performance studies, geology, human geography, and archaeology. Detailing foreshore performances enacted in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Scotland, and Sweden between ... |
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