GUNS AND VIRIONS: MEL CHIN’S I SEE…. THE INSURGENT MECHANICS OF INFECTION

Mel Chin

Thirty years after Mel Chin pointed a rifle at the heads of an audience assembled for a public talk, the artist re-examines this eerily prescient work in our current moment of resurgent fascisms, rampant viral scares—both medical and digital—and the need to reimagine everything.