#13 Agnes Questionmark
STUDIO PROGRAM 2024
We are excited to welcome Agnes Questionmark (b. 1995, Rome), an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, sculpture, video, and installation, as the new resident artist at 99 Canal!
After recently completing a residency at The Odin, a bioengineering lab in Austin, Texas, with biohacker and artist Josie Zayner, Questionmark will use “Studio 3” to further her research into medical and scientific practices, and to conceptualise an installation in collaboration with 99 Canal in New York City for spring 2025.
Questionmark’s collaboration with Zayner began with the creation of QuestionGen (0.0022 ml), part of her larger installation Cyber-Teratology Operation, currently on view at the 60th Venice Biennale in the Garden of the Virgins. QuestionGen (0.0022 ml) is an anti-medicine containing 0.002288998764 ml of the artist’s DNA, encapsulated and paired with a misinformative leaflet. This work aims to reclaim and repurpose medical devices, expanding the possibilities of the human body through imaginative freedom and exploring physical and mental alternatives.
Questionmark’s practice explores the boundaries of self-identity through genetic experiments, surgical operations, and artificial reproductive processes, challenging normative concepts of identity. By placing her body and her audiences in spaces where conventional human norms are disrupted, she critiques the biopolitical implications of transgender and trans-species bodies in a human-dominated world.
Text by Ginevra de Blasio
About the Artist
Agnes Questionmark has recently been included in the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, at the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, the Malta Biennale, Valletta; Konig Galerie, Berlin; the 14th Gwangju Biennale, and at the MAXXI Museum, Rome. Her recent long durational performances include CHM13hTERT (2023), at SpazioSERRA in Milan and TRANSGENESIS (2021), presented by The Orange Garden in London.
Studio Program | 99 CANAL
The Studio Program is a one to four-month program open to emerging and mid-career artists based both within and outside New York City.
Individuals are invited to work at 99 Canal based on their necessity for studio space and their potential impact on the neighborhood and our community. A key feature of the studio program is its strong focus on peer-to-peer engagement, recognizing the transformative power of collaboration and knowledge exchange.
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