To Conceal Other Histories Ungoverned is a spiral-bound book that manipulates documents produced by the Eugenics Record Office (ERO), a research institute active in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, from 1910 to 1939. The ERO collected extensive data on the American population, fueling the eugenics movement and ideas of race-betterment. This book confronts the lasting legacy of the eugenics movement in the US, offering a space for active engagement with the ideological mechanisms that fueled it.

Produced using an office laser printer and spiral binding, the book intentionally employs technologies typically used in libraries and archives, only to subvert their original purpose—the reproduction, organization, and dissemination of information—through glitching and abstraction. By cutting and layering, subjects are removed from the archival and colonial gaze, denying complete visibility and knowledge. Pathological images and identifiers like fingerprints are decontextualized and abstracted, rendering them unrecognizable, thereby undermining their use in classification and categorization and protecting subjects from control.

To Conceal... rejects traditional archival structures such as chronology, linearity, and origin, embracing excess and disorder as strategies of resistance. Information is not merely accumulated but deconstructed and obscured, challenging the authority of the archive. By embracing errors and glitches as tools of disruption, the book interferes with the legibility of the archive, subverting its inherent desire for completeness and control. Instead of clarity and accessibility, these methods obscure and confound, compelling the reader to reflect on the complexity of history and grapple with the instability of historical narratives.

By confronting the painful legacy of eugenics and its dehumanizing narratives, To Conceal Other Histories Ungoverned creates a space for reflection, mourning, and the reclamation of silenced voices. Through abstraction and disorder, it offers a form of resistance, challenging the desire to see, know, and conquer. It seeks to restore dignity to those subjected to these oppressive systems, fostering a deeper understanding of how historical traumas continue to reverberate.