This project investigates how human-made sound alters aquatic space through a combination of video and installation, addressing temporal and spatial dimensions. It examines sound as a form of spatial governance within aquatic environments and reveals that when human-made sound is treated as part of the environment, the neutrality of water no longer exists.

This research understands human-produced sound as a material force that reshapes water as a medium and examines its role in spatial governance. Marine space functions as a liminal domain distinct from terrestrial territory, where rights of passage are granted by humans rather than by its original inhabitants. Human actions are articulated through sound, which is often perceived as a non-violent form of intervention. This perceived immateriality conceals a long-term and de-responsibilised mode of spatial occupation and ecological governance. As sound propagates through water, it disrupts benthic habitats and sedimentary structures. Repetitive human acoustic rhythms fracture existing ecological systems, rendering aquatic environments unstable and continuously reconfigured. By combining research with experimental visualisation, this project argues that when human-made sound is normalised as part of the environment, water is transformed into a controllable medium and becomes a tool of colonisation.