Coastal, Interrupted brings film, photography, and walking-based research into conversation to explore how bodies, landscapes, and digital traces intersect along South Africa’s Eastern Cape Wild Coast. The project originates from a five-day hike undertaken not with artistic intention, but through the habitual logics of the quantified self: cellphone and GoPro footage, incidental video, GPX tracking, and the routine recording of terrain, distance, and movement.

The installation explores what happens when data meant for measurement is revisited as material for sensing the coast’s social, political, and environmental entanglements.Drawing on the method of media-walking (Iqani and Bosch 2025), the work approaches walking as a way of knowing place, which reveals both its surface beauty and the layered histories that shape it. The coastline encountered here is not neutral. It is marked by extractive pastoral economies, uneven access, damaged infrastructure, and the long legacies of colonial and post-apartheid geographies. Moving through this terrain means repeatedly encountering boundaries: fences, gates, livestock, private holdings, community pathways, and the residues of labour and displacement. These interruptions become central to how the coast is lived, crossed, and contested.