An online interactive story of a super spreading event at The Metropole Hotel.

In this work participants check in to the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong and choose a room. There they discover the fate of one of the guests on the night of 21st February 2003 as SARS spread among 17 guests. The guests never spoke to each other, never shared a room and never met. What happened?

In the summer of 2020, during a nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19, we began discussions with the International Cultural Programmes team at Wellcome about how to respond to the pandemic. We decided to revisit the installation work A Cluster of 17 Cases and develop it into an online version.

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Winner of the Weird & Experimental Website, The Lovie Awards 2021 & People's Lovie, 2021