Agnes Questionmark QUESTIONGEN (0.0022 ML)

QuestionGen (0.0022 ml), Agnes Questionmark’s first artist edition, is an anti-medicine: a single blistered 169 mg capsule containing 0.002288998764 ml of the artist’s DNA coming in a medicine box with a misinformative leaflet.

QuestionGen (0.0022 ml) reclaims and repurposes an existing medical device to deconstruct normative reproduction in human speciation, often used as a political propaganda to suppress queer exposure. This pill is an act of resistance as well as a rebellion against the coercive power that scientists and doctors exert on people’s bodies, enacting a series of discriminations based on race, gender, and class.

QuestionGen (0.0022 ml) allows a process of deconstruction of the human being as a privileged entity; it is a further step into a series of experiments, projects, events or happenings that will give an active contribution to the birth of a more egalitarian species. Your ability to reshape and transform yourself is the active principle of QuestionGen (0.0022 ml).

The pill was created in collaboration with Josie Zayner, bio-hacker and artist, who was able to synthesize Agnes Questionmark’s DNA from blood through a chemical DNA extraction method. Alongside texts by Agnes Questionmark, the leaflet features contributions by Josie Zayner, Kostas Stasinopolous, and Arturo Passacantando.