To think of geological time, the time of the sliding stones, the time of the lithosphere, the time of the continents is to think of our fleeting transience. Perhaps, with this thought, we can evade the madness of human depletion of the Earth, marvel at its mighty fragility, and appreciate the countless entities that shaped it in the volatile space and aeons of time.
Surprisingly, the rocks from the mountains were once at the bottom of the sea. All the soil was produced by bacteria that metabolised minerals. Coccolithophores, single-celled algae, squeezed out a large portion of the Earth’s limestone from their tiny bodies. Like us, they are made of calcium carbonate, both alive and dead, organic and inorganic. We recognise that this distinction is unnecessary, yet, what matters is what world worlds world.* It is difficult to find a location on the planet that would not be transformed by humans or at least tempered by the consequences of their interventions. To world, a different world, ruled by reciprocity and not authority, requires the internalisation of a different set of questions. Jata C asks, “How do we hear the stones and their aeons?”
Released 2 April 2023
Artists: beepblip, OR poiesis, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šaljič Podešva, and Brane Zorman
Cover design: Ida Hiršenfelder
Photo: Maša Pirc
Production: Cona Institute
Producer: Irena Pivka
Partner: Marmor Hotavlje Group
Affiliation: Steklenik, gallery for sound, bioacoustics and art