The Chronotopes

The Chronotopes are a series of monuments; objects or apparatus that imbue, construct and/or propagate temporal conditions, and which are deployed through spatial and landscape practices. This artistic research project pivoted on an engagement with the invisible electromagnetic landscape via experimental Very Low Frequency radio antennae, to support sculptural, text-based and sonic practices.

The Chronotopes are devices and landscape structures deployed to disturb linearity. Antagonising at the scales of the Anthropocene where the human is implicated as a geological agent, these technical apparatus manifest affective alignments at a planetary resolution. The Chronotopes adopt the status of the monument, a category of spatial and temporal materialism with a linguistic comportment, to deploy a recalibration of space-time aesthetics. Only through nonlinear machinations is the sublime condition of Language comprehended in its authentic form, yet witnessed to have infected a materialism under geo-magnification.

“The collapse of nonlinearity followed the Babel Event, and Language imposed its own linear ordering. Subjugating the host for reproduction and propagation, Language seeks further modes and realities to occupy. Its iterative condition invades and flows in multiple strata, to parasitically inscribe distinct spatial and temporal aesthetics.”