Saliva

You can participate in the specimen exchange via an in person session or mail order kit. Your saliva specimen will be kept by the artist according to the Terms of Exchange below. You may do what you like with the artist’s specimen.

How does digital surveillance force us to renegotiate our boundaries of our selves and our bodies? Who can and should hold ownership over our bodily fluids, and over our DNA? How do we navigate this when future technological development may render measures of privacy ineffective? How do we collectively mitigate risk while seeking intimacy in times of crisis?

A project by Lauren Lee McCarthy
Design by Lauren Leung Cramer