The People’s Immunology Committee uses art, gesture, storytelling and text to create understandings of and questions about the cells, substances and selves of the immune system that are alternatives to the state’s offerings in (all) pandemic times.
Images from the Inaugural Meeting of the People’s Immunology Committee. Clockwise from top L: “The node” — an invitation to make immune responses; “The tissues” - an interactive sculpture with spaces to reach into, explore and retrieve from that invites the body into dendritic motion; Close up of an “immune response”; Emily Bass embodying the dendritic cell in the opening presentation. Scroll down for images from “(How) Do we heal?” a collaborative workshop held in Johannesburg, South Africa in March 2023.
At right: mages from (How) Do We Heal workshop, March 2, 2023, Johannesburg, South Africa. A collaboration between The Dendron Project and Latobyve Designs led by Emily Bass and Yvette Raphael, foreground, far right image. The workshop used textiles as the prompt for text, gesture and quilt-making to explore and embody the immunologic processes of naming and recognition, finding the part that matters, and making collective action