Installation by Paul Davies, Leslie Clague, Jake Woland, and Nick Chapman. A New Type of Unfortunate Occurrence is an interactive environment that explores issues surrounding genetic research and its potentially disastrous outcomes by Paul Davies, Leslie Clague, Jake Woland and Nick Chapman. On January 25, 2023, in the Immucor gene research facility in West Essex New Jersey, a senior lab technician performed a then-standard experiment. The technician inserted genetic material from an Amazonian beetle into fertilized embryos of common sheep. The research facilities of the West Essex Immucor labs were kept highly sterile to prevent contamination of experiments. However, this practical matter was not 100 percent possible and in this particular instance the experiment was contaminated by mold spores that the technician had come into contact with while camping the previous weekend. The result was the creation of a rapidly mutating strain of virus, now called West Essex 6. The effect of the virus is to over take the hosts (humans) and, in a cancerous fashion, mutate living cells into an uncontrolled spore-pod-like growth. Those infected have a 72% recorded mortality rate. The Immucor lab was sealed on January 26 at 6:23pm by the CDC and remained under quarantine for six months, after which time the facility was burned to prevent spread of the virus. This is the first known example of a genetic disaster. Opening night performances by Chapman, liek twi and the mu ensemble, Damian Catera, and others.