"There is a strange pleasure in the performance of DNA extraction, live in an art museum. To take materials from human volunteers who do so without the fear of identification, policing, or a potentially devastating medical diagnosis. It turns out that genetics are fun when we all do it together, sipping, swirling, and spitting into a weird and beautiful hybrid object. Through the America Project, the purpose of DNA extraction is suborned both by the intentional act of 'promiscuous' fluid mixing and the recontextualization of machine and scientific process into artistic expression."
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