“When Your Mind is Running, Your Body is Watching” follows eight individuals droning around a 3D model of the Havre de Grace Quarry in Maryland. The quarry, an active reserve for construction aggregates, serves as a crucial environment for the characters. The enclosed outdoor complex is a natural accessory to the human models, like an inorganically occurring Counter Strike map. Cameras from a mock GoPro perspective follow each character as they speak. They are inaudibly mouthing the phrase, “when your mind is running your body is watching.” Each night, the videos would iteratively degrade through lossy compression.
This Won’t Last consists of seven new video works and a performance by the Philadelphia-based media arts collective Lino Kino. The series questions everyday assumptions about the roles and implicit meanings of monumental art in public spaces by presenting rarely memorialized subjects — such as failure, loss, entropy, the mundane, and the unacknowledged — on a monumental scale.