AGNES QUESTIONMARK | ATTEMPT ll
This short documentation of the artist Agnes Questionmark’s performance, is aimed highlight the ambiance and narrative. Attempt I and II is about the recent development of CRISPR-Cas9, a gene editing technology that allows DNA to become malleable, and the advancements in the study of CHM13, a cell able to build a complete picture of the human genome, are opening up the possibility of creating alternative evolutionary pathways controlled by technology and our own will. The creature’s inability to survive on earth’s conditions mirrors Questionmark’s struggles to define herself in a binary society suggesting that although humans can requisition their identity, their physical bodies cannot be fully transformed yet. By intervening with her biological anatomy and artificially feminizing her body, Questionmark proves to be the artifact of herself and her own real fiction.