This project explores the coastal areas of Scotland where industrial and natural structures have become interwoven. These areas, where life began the evolutionary journey from ocean to land, are at risk due to rising water levels. This anthropogenic impact on the coast is highlighted by the artist via photogrammetry of the emerging assemblages; hybrid environments where industrial ruins, military fortifications, drifting plastic, fishing threads and organic matter like algae, shells, armours and claws, mosses and lichens coalesce into new, unstable formations.
The project consists of 41 one-minute video loops, each centred around digital artefacts hovering in void-like spaces. Suspended objects slowly break apart or proliferate through particle systems, visualising both material decay and organic growth. Glitches, missing textures, and digital fractures emphasise the landscape’s resistance to digitisation, highlighting the matter’s instability. Each artefact is paired with fragmented monologues as subtitles—meditations on time, materiality, and humanity’s uncertain future from a geological perspective.
East Kilbride-based Andrey Chugunov’s work combines sound art, light installation, generative graphics, technological sculpture, media performances and readymades. He researches topics of mortality, temporality, autonomy and memory decay. Andrey won the Carla Rapoport Award for this work at the 2025 Lumen Prize.
Co-commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts and New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland and the University of Edinburgh.
