Viscera

Viscera begins with a simple act: choosing a pathogen. Nine specimens ( bacteria, viruses, prions, and parasites) sit waiting in their petri dishes and corning flasks. Place one on the pedestal, and the mannequin transforms. Animated projections bloom across its surface, tracing the chosen organism's path through the body - routes of transmission, sites of infection, the immune system's response rendered in vivid, shifting light. The magic lies in what's hidden. Beneath the pedestal, an RFID scanner silently reads each specimen and triggers its corresponding animation - an invisible handshake between object and installation that makes the experience feel instinctive and immediate. Swap one flask for another, and the body before you tells a different story. Housed within the Museum of Human Disease at UNSW, Viscera transforms clinical knowledge into something felt. By placing a pathogen in your hands and watching what it does inside a human body, the installation collapses the distance between observer and disease — making the invisible, for a moment, impossible to ignore.