U-Gen-A-Chix
YOUGenics2, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, October, 2003.
This performance, staged in the lobby of the SMSU Student Union, engaged students directly in an experience designed to reveal and discuss how eugenic desires and profit motives drive genetic engineering of humans and animals, and produce eugenic consciousness. We set up tandem performance booths: One dispensed information on human egg donation and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, while the other offered taste testing of a subRosa-made superior chicken biscuit purported to enhance student smartness and improve memory. After taste-testing the biscuit, students gave live video interviews on their opinions about genetic engineering and biological and social eugenic tendencies. Students filled out questionnaires that helped them assess their "Fleshworth" on the biotech tissue market, and received certificates. SubRosaís pamphlet: "Cultures of Eugenics" addressed the question "Why are women like chickens," and linked human Assisted Reproductive Technologies with the genetic engineering of chickens, pharming, cloning, and eugenic breeding.
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