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Manhattan exists as a patchwork of distinct realities, be it through the swampy Mannahatta embedded in protruding rocks, the archaeological New Amsterdam revealed in the excavated 17th century remains of a Dutch ship, or the Delirious New York (Rem Koolhaas) manifested in the extravaganza of tabula rasa and technology - the paradigm of the modern urban metropolis. Increasing ecological stress augmented by climate change offer glimpses of peak conditions in planetary systems, encouraging us to reappraise the island as a geological entity – a landscape made of distinct materialities spreading across scale in space and time, and subjected to deep time processes such as erosion or sedimentation.

[Speculation in Deep Time: Flooding across Manhattan, throwing the city under a layer of silt, thus crystallising it into a geological layer. A crew of geologists depart on an expedition to analyse the geological properties of the new¬ly surfaced Island of Entropic Flux. The island is becoming a large rock of siltstone existing in deep time. Erosion eventually uncovers the geological anomalies found on the island’s rock shell - fossilised residues of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The Crumbling Garden sits on the southern edge of the island, speculatively located on Gansevoort Peninsula. The peninsula has crystalized into a large chunk of unknown plastic geology. The crew constructs a micro architecture on a retreating cliff - The Re¬ceding Micro-Erosion Meter - in order to meas¬ure the erosion rate of this new geological finding].

Through the creation of speculative cartographies, ArChimera constructs a speculative landscape of Manhattan. Taking the form of an archipelago of islands, the project explores Jean-Francois Lyotard’s meaning of a scapeland – a territory of estrangement. The proposal experiments with landscape formations provocatively conceived as gardens, akin to Gilles Clément’s mental territories of hope.

The Island of Entropic Flux is one of these speculative islands: a spectral manifestation of Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, functioning as a landscape-clock measuring Deep Time. Within a speculative reality, the island is shrinking and weathering; a territory where erosion’s dynamic qualities are foregrounded. This speculation derives from a synthesis of past and future moments into the present. The project accepts 1) the eventual lithification of Manhattan’s edge under ecological stress, 2) Anthropogenic geology as defined by Jan Zalasiewicz and Kim Freedman in “Buried Treasures”, New Scientist (1998) 3) Gansevoort Peninsula as a hub of waste transfer to the Fresh Kills landfill when it was operational, and 4) Gordon Matta-Clark’s project Day’s End, an intervention executed on Gansevoort Peninsula in 1975, mirrored by The Re¬ceding Micro-Erosion Meter.

Thanks to Adrian Hawker, Victoria Bernie, and Tiago Torres-Campos for input and supervision, and Marina Solodova, Rishabh Shah, Antonyo Wong for exciting teamwork.

All animation and drawings by Norman Villeroux, except ArChimera Map Drawing (00:12-00:42) by Marina Solodova, Rishabh Shah, Antonyo Wong, and Norman Villeroux

All sound editing by Norman Villeroux, sample from freesound.org.

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