The Plague Archives is a site-specific installation comprised of multiple video projections, audio installations, performances, and a dense collection of archival material on the social, cultural, and political histories of epidemics and outbreaks. The viewer walks into an immersive Wunderkammer of malady: to experience how people in circumstances of mass illness have negotiated their fear and suffering—their political, economic, and spiritual realities—their class and racial bigotries. To not just learn history, but to feel history.

Images from Pitzer installation (January-March 2023).