The Landfill Reenactment Society
Together we embodied the eroding cliffs, the changing tides and the unearthed past of the Kirkcaldy coast, our performance shaped and co-created by live data.
View a recording of the live data performance
31 May 2026, 1:30-4pm
Kirkcaldy Galleries
Part of the Waste Futures Labs Kirkcaldy and the Resilience of Anthropocene Coasts and Communities (RACC) research project
Kirkcaldy’s eroding coastline is a restless threshold where industrial memory collides with forecasted climate futures. The Landfill Reenactment Society invites participants to craft non-human characters from buried waste and physically step into the predictive scientific data of this fragile landscape. Using volumetric video and real time visual programming, bodies and handmade masks merge with a living digital projection. Through a collective reenactment of both past legacies and speculative tomorrows, the more than human forces shaping the shore are embodied. This shared performance translates the slow surrender of a cliff face, the projected rush of rising seawater, and the future unearthing of plastics into physical movement. It is an immersive exploration of coastal resilience, asking how communities might physically feel, anticipate, and rehearse the ecological transformations yet to come.
The workshop involved creative mask making and learning about data visualisation. We turned waste into non-human characters from the past and possible futures. The workshop culminated in a collective performance with live data visualisation of the footage using localised weather data (wind and sea level).