SARS-CoV-2 Live @ Lloyd Center

Find the video on YouTube here.

I’m totally new to most everything this project entails— costuming, performance art, video editing— which ended up being a lot of fun. This was a “translation” of my MFA thesis, The Nighthawk, a creative nonfuction book about Long COVID, which I contracted in the winter of 2022 and have been living with ever since. The video was shot in Lloyd Center, a semi-dead mall in Portland, OR— but it was very much alive when we were there, full of people ice skating, hanging out, and working on their laptops in the mostly defunct food court.