Pink Chicken Project: Coloring All Chickens Pink With A Gene Drive - Re-occupying The Rock Strata

The Pink Chicken Project is an ambiguous proposal to use a recently invented biotechnology of accelerated gene propagation, called “Gene Drive”, to genetically modify all chickens in the world, colouring their bones and feathers pink. Being the world's most common bird, the bones of the 60 billion chickens that are killed every year leave a distinct trace in the rock strata (the earth's crust), suggested by geologists from the Anthropocene Working Group to be a prime identifier of our time. This intervention would thereby modify the future fossil record, coloring the geological trace of humankind, pink! Pink is a symbolic color, an opposition to the current global power dynamics, that enable and aggravate the anthropocentric violence forced upon the non-human world. A story somewhere between utopia and dystopia, the project attempts to redirect focus to the underlying ethical and political issues that shape our relationship to nonhuman beings.