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  • Image: dOCUMENTA

    "Toilet" by Ilya Kabakov

    A view of Kabakov's installation from the outside. Kassel. Germany, 1992.
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  • Potty Parity: what does it mean?

    And why are there always queues in front of women's restrooms?

    The lack of equal access to toilets is considered by some a subtle form of discrimination against women. It may be culturally embedded rather than consciously pursued, yet it is still there. Here is...

  • Pop-up Urinals

    Public convenience by the push of a button

    This public urinal hides in plain sight during the day, and rises for the occasion at night. With room for three, the urinal provides ample opportunity and encouragement for male citizens to do their...

  • The metamorphic fluids of Jan Fabre

    The body as a treasure trove in Fabre's theatre

    Urine, blood, semen, tears, sweat and the naked body: this is the magic laboratory theatre director and artist Jan Fabre explores, uses and confronts his public with.

  • Pis’

    In art history

    From ancient to contemporary art, urine in art depicts both the micro-narratives of personal stories and the meta-narratives of the ever evolving world. The depiction and relation to urine and...

  • The Big Blue

    Sustainable and financially profitable sanitation

    Three years ago, an off-grid closed-system toilet known as the Blue Diversion won an award in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Reinventing the Toilet"-challenge. It has also won the title of...

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...

  • Brigette Bloom

    Pee, soak, dry and use

    A project that started as an accident and ended up being a new way of making pictures personal.

  • About the Pis’ Project

    2014-2016

    The Pis’ Project connects urine in the arts with innovation within design, architecture and environment. After a successful two years we decided in 2017 to expand the project from urine to all human...

  • 26 Bathrooms and 6 Apartments

    Cinematography notes on the Toilet

    ''It was an affectionate, ironical, critical look at bathroom design - it is not only what people put in their bathrooms, but also what people do in their bathrooms, which is the secret room of the...

  • Gilbert & George's bodily pictures

    Spunk, blood, piss, shit, spit

    A piece about two artists who challenged taboos and social “diktats” by magnifying the sometimes disgusting materiality of the body

  • Cleantech Playground

    A technical and environmental system for De Ceuvel

    The Cleantech Playground (CTP) is a planned sustainable, cleantech utility at De Ceuvel in the North of Amsterdam. The project contains land-based offices and a commercial park, Café De Ceuvel, and a...

  • Painting in pee

    Warhol's Oxidations

    Made up of soft coppery yellows, oranges, blacks and greens, the pools and drips of Andy Warhol's oxidized works represent quite a different take on the artist, than his (in)famous pop-art. The...

  • Rembrandt

    and the pissing farmer's wife

    Many an artist throughout time has touched upon the subject of piss within their works. One of the most notable of these is perhaps Rembrandt van Rijn.

  • The curious case of peeing Calvin decals

    A controversial image that has run through the decades

    You have probably seen it in the shape of a sticker or printed on a t-shirt, but maybe you don't know its history. Did Watterson draw it? Where did the meme start? Are the “spin-offs” illegal? And...

  • Obsessed with urination

    Two men who turned pee into a subject of art

    Urination as both a bodily function and a social practice may prove fascinating for some people. At least, it was for the artists Charles Demuth and Boris O'Klein. The former treated the act of...

  • Eating the Future

    Exploring food beyond the plate

    Food-4-Evah explores how the human body might adapt to a world of post-processed meals. Could you get used to food from the future?   In exploring this question, photographer/teacher Ursula van de...

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...

  • Pissing on Patriarchy

    Urine as a Feminist Symbol in Contemporary Art

    You may be familiar with Andy Warhol’s oxidation paintings , or Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ , two of the most well-known uses of urine in contemporary art. But when it comes to female artists...

  • Fountain

    From urinal to inspiration

    Fountain. What image is cultivated in your mind after reading this word? Perhaps a beautiful multi tier structure, spewing a hypnotic flood of water centered in a botanical park. Or maybe a more...

  • Prope(e)r

    Portable urinals for women.

    Shout out to all the ladies out there! Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you've really had "to go" and there as not been a convenient bathroom within reach? Maybe you were on a road...
  • Mediamatic Off-Line Vol. 11#1 Paul Groot 1 Jan 2003

    Chinatown

    Meggie Schneider

    Welcome , we read, on a large billboard by the grounds of an idyllic park somewhere in China

  • Pee, where do you come from?

    All you need to know if you have ever wondered about the etymology of such a common word

    We have been talking about pee and urine, but we haven't looked at the origin of these words yet. It's now time to fill the gap with some etymological insights.

  • Pissing and the public

    Most animals have excretory systems for elimination of soluble wastes. Humans are no different. While we may regard ourselves as much more evolved, in many ways we still resemble all the other...

  • The toilet is the origin of our sexuality

    A Piss Manifest by Mischa Badasyan

    A typology of public toilet visitors? It exists. It is the work of the Berlin-based artist Mischa Badasyan. For two years he observed and classified users of public toilets in different countries.

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