2006 Rockefeller New Media Foundation Proposal

Abstract

Marching Plague is a three part project that includes a book on the absurd history of germ warfare; an installation that chronicles how hoax germ threats started germ warfare programs in the US, UK, and Japan along with a live demonstration of how the hoax is done; and the final part is a film we are making primarily consisting of a recreation of the Isle of Lewis Plague Trials (using a safe simulant of course).