James Geurts

DISSONANCE: TIDAL INTERVENTION 2025

Dissonance: tidal intervention is a conceptual site-responsive film developed to reference human impact on environmental flows. The artwork draws attention to the specific way the nearby groyne reassigns tidal currents from a natural life force to a cultural resource through the preservation of the beach for human use. The pixelated and apparently incomplete design is taken from the artist’s filming of the location with an old analogue video camera—the flow of visual data is disrupted during the filming process to create pictorial distortion, reflecting environmental intervention through land management. These abstract signals reference the ecological data and networks that are beyond immediate human perception, a hidden underlying layer of the environment.