Unknown Race  is a projection and sound installation commissioned by the London arts community organization, Panchayat. Organized by Shaheen Merali, Extreme Unction, was one of the first London exhibition to address issues of HIV and AIDS and its affect on Asian communities

	The installation utilized scans of particular AIDS viruses (biopsies, lesions, and sores) that were mapped onto "real" body images to suggest the imminent and invadatory aspect of the AIDS disease.

a	Motor-driven projectors cast the ghostly images– symbolic of an Asian body rendered mute and invisible by govt. health care as well as individual Asian communities– through several panels of translucent fabric.

 

Sponsored by Panchayat and exhibited at Old Spitalfield Market, London