In July 2025, the installation The Tipping Point by Yiannis Kranidiotis was presented at the Global Tipping Points Conference in Exeter. The event gathered leading scientists from around the world to discuss planetary tipping points and systemic change.
Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability. The effects of tipping points will be transmitted and amplified throughout our globalised world. To mitigate these risks, we should focus on positive tipping points, opportunities where beneficial changes become self-sustaining. History shows that rapid societal shifts are possible.
The artwork, proposed by Frank Dentener, strikingly opened the conference. As the lights dimmed, the rhythmic ticking of the installation filled the room, setting a powerful tone for the discussions that followed.
You can watch the video on Yiannis Kranidiotis' YouTube channel.
About the collaboration
Yiannis Kranidiotis is an artist whose work explores the relationship between science and art, primarily using light, movement, and sound to create spaces and experiences where everything coexists and interacts. Frank Dentener has been working for 30 years in the fields of climate change, agriculture, and air pollution, and is a senior expert and group leader at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. The two met at the SciArt Summer School on the theme of NaturArchy, held in June 2022 at the JRC, and subsequently decided to collaborate.
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