Featured here in its first iteration at the Noosa Climate Tech Summit hosted by Forward Festival and
Silicon Coast, Shifting Sand is a continuing project arising from interdisciplinary collaboration.
Developed with artist Brian Keayes, coastal geographer Javier Leon, and contemporary dancer Soleil
Harvey, this performance piece uses beach monitoring imagery taken over three years of Burgess Creek
entering Perigian Beach to generate an interactive field of synthesised sand. Throughout the
performance, the sand’s reaction to human movement becomes increasingly unpredictable and erratic,
generating fractal patterns of turbulence that visually represent the chaotic repercussions of human
intervention in coastal environments.