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.

A white woman with short curly hair stands behind a black lectern with a black and white photograph of a cell that looks like a big flower taped on to it. She has a black t shirt , silver necklace and her arms are stretched out in a "t" shape.
A dark haired man with light brown skin reaching his arm into a fabric tube in a fabric screen. Two other people with their backs to the camera watch him. A pair of people stand behind him, talking. The walls and floor are white.
A black fabric panel with thin red and white string tied to the metal frame. Clothes pins hold black postcards with white text and a hand-drawn picture and text on gray paper in red pen. A big fabric rectangle has questions on it.
A white postcard clipped with a wooden clothes pin to a thin white string across black fabric has "My immune system can't ever seem to get it right. My throat is forever scratchy," handwritten in red ink with a hand-drawn heart.
Three women with brown skin and one woman with white skin standing on a brightly painted floor that is purple, red, orange and blue. One woman is sitting in an orange chair. The others are standing. They are part of a larger circle.

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