Molecular Invasion

2002-2004

a project by

Critical Art Ensemble
with
Beatriz da Costa & Claire Pentecost

With Molecular Invasion, we took another step forward by doing an actual scientific experiment in public. Our belief was that scientific practices could be appropriated by the public (amateurs) and used for resistant purposes. In reaction to the foolish tactics of the Earth Liberation Front (burning fields and fire-bombing labs), and as a means to show precisely how contestational biology could becomeanother important tool in the activist tool kit, we set ourselves the assignment of creating a biochemical intervention into RoundUp Ready crops (canola, corn, and soy). These are Monsanto's most profitable seeds and spin-off products. We wanted to find a way to specifically target these crops.

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