THE COAST OF INDUSTRY (2024)
6-Channel Animation
Presented by MASS MoCa, North Adams, MA, 2024
Score by Jeremy Turner
Sound Design by Owen O’Neil
The Coast of Industry depicts a family of machines that have learned to work together in concert with the natural world in loops of perpetual labor. Like organs of a body, the machines are interconnected and each has a discrete function that contributes to the life of the larger organism. Products, by-products, and waste are generated, used and reused. They are transported through networks of tubes and conduits that weave throughout the spaces of the landscape. Their perpetual industriousness binds the machines to the larger ecosystem of the planet. For the machines, repetition has a calming effect, and though it doesn’t expand, the system thrives.