Happy Birthday to You is
an interactive installation made to challenge our understanding of illness and intervention.

In order to effectively kill germs, doctors recommend singing Happy Birthday twice while washing your hands. For this project, I fixed a camera to the bottom of my bathroom sink and documented this practice. I continued washing and singing for five minutes, transforming a brief, universal action into a repetitive, debilitating ritual. The video, projected in a public restroom, is supplemented by a roll of paper towels with handwritten text. When a bathroom-goer eventually uses the paper towels, the ink will stain their skin and force them to wash again.

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