One Million Bones (2008-2013) is a social practice work in which over 150,000 people from fifty states and thirty countries created handmade bones to address ongoing genocide and mass atrocities in Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, and Syria. The bones were installed by thousands of participants in a choreographed performance as part of a three-day culminating event.
The five year process that led to the installation on the National Mall included two preview installations of 50,000 bones, one in Albuquerque and one in New Orleans; hundreds of small, local installations in schools and communities and a one day event with thirty four simultaneous installations in thirty three state capitals.
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