Chronotopic Fractures

‘Chronotopic Fractures’ is a time-based installation that examines how climate disruption fractures our collective architectures of time. At its core is the ‘leap second’, a minuscule adjustment added to global clocks to synchronise with Earth’s unstable rotation. This anomaly reveals deeper tensions as profit-driven temporality collides with the unpredictable rhythms of the planet. 

The work features two rotating devices: one tuned to atomic time (UTC), the other to Earth’s rotation (UT1). Their rare, fleeting alignments and ongoing drift physically render the clash between human-made systems of precision and the changing tempo of the Earth. The project draws on fieldwork at the Paris Observatory and in the Swedish Arctic.