If you feel like you “don’t have a pot to piss in,” then you should definitely swing by the exhibition “Pissig Kapitalism” at Kipi Konsthall. Here, the artist offers you both a pot—and a good deal—in a shop where you can literally pay for goods with your own pee.
Among the items for sale are “pee-shirts,” that have been dyed (or at least attempted dyed) using old techniques involving urine; a newly developed board game designed to help us talk about all the pissy crap we carry around; a specially locally produced fertilizer for tomato plants (which you can also buy at the exhibition); a type of urine pregnancy test dating all the way back to ancient Egypt; and much more.
There’s also the option to “exchange currency” by purchasing drinks—and then waiting for them to pass through your system. It’s a slightly slower transaction than at your average bank, but while you wait, you can browse the goods and soak up the exhibition’s free stories about piss, crap, and value—across culture, history, past, present, and future.
Because even though we normally just flush it down the drain, our pee is, in fact, valuable. Throughout history, it has been used and traded as detergent, gunpowder, fertilizer, and more. Today, the combined sludge is even used to produce fertilizer, gas and electricity at many treatment plants. The large windows of the exhibition space will be decorated with texts explaining some of these historical and contemporary values.
Because even though we normally just flush it down the drain, our pee is, in fact, valuable. Throughout history, it has been used and traded as detergent, gunpowder, fertilizer, and more. Today, the combined sludge is even used to produce fertilizer, gas and electricity at many treatment plants. The large windows of the exhibition space will be decorated with texts explaining some of these historical and contemporary values.
Kilde: Kipi Konsthall
