"Marching Plague", Critical Art Ensemble

image du haut: "Germs of Deception", installation, Halle 14, Leipzig, 2007

image du bas: capteurs (partie de l'installation)

" In 1949, a US military group charged with biological research sent an agent to release Serratia marcensens (a harmless Anthrax simulant) into the air ducts at the Pentagon. The mission was successfull (...). They neglected to mention that 100% germ coverage does not translate into 100% infection rate which does not translate into 100% mortality rate. (...) In Germs of Deception, Critical Art Ensemble (...) recreates the misleading experiment in the gallery. (...) All our sensors lit up. "

Critical Art Ensemble, "Marching Plague", 2006