 Contagious Cities is a multi-city project organized by Welcome and it is crossing New York, Hong Kong, and Geneva and includes artist commissions in all three cities. So I'm the artist who was commissioned for New York. The project is commemorating the centenary of the 1918 flu pandemic and is going to be used by Welcome to agitate for better pandemic preparedness, which I think is a very interesting context in which to make an artwork. The artwork will end up circulating not only to spaces like the Museum of the City of New York, but also other art adjacent institutions. Okay, let's look at video. We have a lot of material on the metaphors used to talk about diseases and less material on diseases being used as metaphors to talk about other things. The research for this project was done with five researchers and two research coordinators. All the other factors. The researchers all had backgrounds or interests of their own that overlapped with my research brief and brought their own kind of knowledge in different areas including public health and the philosophy and history of medicine. We had a group library on Zotero and we shared all of our research and met also weekly in a kind of mini think tank. And I think if we can get it, these things of like super dramatizing like super bug kind of stuff would be interesting. We collected primary texts, secondary texts, images, video and audio. The imagery actually has been pretty critical to the construction of the film and also to my thinking around the ideas behind the film. So it's not only a structural piece of the film, but also a big part of how my ideas developed because I was researching through images. What you're seeing in the exhibition now is actually excerpts from the longer piece. So I made a kind of short version for the exhibition, which is about eight minutes long. Sometimes the role of art is to circulate ideas into the world and often we don't know who those ideas touch or where they travel. Sometimes it happens years after, you know, you make a work that the idea finds a kind of resonance. So I'll be very interested actually to see whether or how it functions.