The Missing Continent

2021 – ongoing

Conceived by Caleb Mitchell in collaboration with a team of architectural designers, The Missing Continent is an ongoing series that reconstructs sites of corruption, violence, and malpractice from the fragmentary speculations and sleuthing of conspiracists like Mitchell.

The Missing Continent (USNS Mercy), 2021, VR panorama

ref: the hospital ship the USNS Mercy, which gained public attention in 2020 after a train engineer in Los Angeles attempted to crash a train into it, citing suspicion of nefarious government activity on the ship

The Missing Continent (VECTOR), 2021, VR panorama

ref: the Russian State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR), which is one of two remaining repositories of the variola virus in the world and which suffered an explosion in 2019

The Missing Continent (Comet Ping Pong), 2022, VR panorama

ref: the D.C.-based pizzeria Comet Ping Pong, which was stormed in 2016 by a shooter motivated by the claims of ‘Pizzagate’ and in search of the restaurant’s basement, which he believed housed a child sex-trafficking ring