Pee

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Crappy Boy Untitled, 2013
felt tip pen

 

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Tala Madani Cupid piss with goggles, 2011
Oil on linen

 

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Henrik Plenge Jakobsen White Love, 1994-95
‘A smelly set-up of household products and body fluids. This installation was the conclusion of a series of works dealing with body fluids. In this case, the fluids were put into different types of circuits, either in household mixers where the knifes of the mixers would cut the molecules of the blood into fragments, or in a closed circulation where a washing machine combined with an external tank washed urine over and over.’

 

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Jennifer West Emoji Piss Film, 2018
’35mm film print soaked and corroded with urine by Andrea Bowers, Symrin Chawla, Micah Espudo, Chris Hanke, Eli Joteva, Jack McGuinn, Peyton Regan, Julian Toca, Vidhi Todi, Bob Viera, Cameron Wells, Ariel West., Fleurette West, Peter West, Jwest’

 

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Guido Reni Putti, 1533
painting

 

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Unknown Parisian Pissers, 1910
photograph

 

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Haseeb Ahmed A Fountain of Eternal Youth III (Urinal), 2022
‘V back, Human Growth Hormone, strobe lights, 3D prints, polycarbonate, polyethylene, MDF, aluminum, electronics, outdoor urinal, and custom software’

 

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Helen Chadwick Piss Flowers, 1994
‘During a residency at the Banff Arts Centre, Canada in 1991, Chadwick and her partner David Notarius made daily visits to snowbound locations. There they would place a flower-shaped metal mould onto a mound of snow, taking turns to urinate into it. They then poured plaster into the shapes created. From these casts, bronze versions were made and mounted onto pedestals resembling bulbs. The downward path of the hot urine through snow is inverted to form a flower reaching upwards.’

 

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Daniel McDonald Erik, Piss-Crazed Maniac, 2007
Graphite on paperboard and stained glass

 

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Nicole Anona Banowetz Excretia: The Piss Crystal, 2022
‘Inflatable fabric sculpture of a giant crystal formed in urine.’

 

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El Morgan The Discovery of Nun’s Urine, 2023
‘In the late 1950’s retired nuns in an Italian convent were asked by the Vatican to donate their urine to a fertility company, which was part owned by the then Pope’s nephew. From this urine, the company extracted a hormone to inject into infertile women. Gallons of urine was collected. Morgan’s multimedia work The Discovery of Nuns’ Urine includes an edited excerpt from a screenplay written by an employee of the drug company about their discovery of the power of nun’s urine.’

 

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Charles Demuth Three Sailors, 1951
painting

 

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Gilbert & George Piss Piss Piss, 1996
hand-dyed silver print, in artist’s frame, in 6 parts

 

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Egle Rakauskaite В жиру, 1998
three channel video

 

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Jean-Michel Basquiat Dealer’s dog, 1983
‘In 1982, the year before Dealer’s Dog was executed, Jean-Michel Basquiat decided to leave his first dealer, Annina Nosei, following disagreements about the sales of his paintings. Though he had not yet met Bruno Bischofberger, the legendary gallerist immediately became the young artist’s exclusive art dealer worldwide and remained so until Basquiat’s untimely death six years later. Basquiat frequently stayed with Bischofberger at his home in St. Moritz. During one of his stays in 1983, Madame Bischofberger’s Lhasa Abso dog urinated on a large pad of paper that had been left on the floor. Basquiat took the ruined paper and drew the little dog next to its puddle, calling the piece Dealer’s Dog. He gifted the work to Bischofberger, who installed it in his dining room.’

 

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Carolee Schneemann Interior Scroll, 1975
Photo collage with text: urine and coffee photographic print

 

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Arthur Guilleminot Piss Soap, 2022
‘Piss soap challenges our understanding of the binary of dirtiness and cleanliness. Can an object be made out of “gruesome” material but be beneficial to our health? Using only waste, Piss Soap invite the maker and user to realign their vision upon discarded matter. Are we constantly trashing matter that has the potential to be repurposed, recycled, and reused? Piss Soap proposes a deviant and yet conscious approach to tackle our waste issue, asking you to think twice next time you flush.’

 

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Candice Lin The Mountain, 2016
‘Before the show, Lin held a dinner in the space where she fed and hydrated her guests, collecting their urine in return. She amassed 15 gallons of piss, which she then distilled, and used to hydrate two types of mushrooms that were cultivated during the exhibition: one type enhanced memory and the other, the immune system.’

 

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Vunkwan Tam 78i78, 2022
‘Lying on the floor in a room near the gallery’s entryway is a bedraggled L-shaped blanket, which a gallery assistant dutifully spritzes with synthetic doe urine every day to keep it pungent and sodden. The exhibition text describes the work’s performance of “a perpetually drenched sadboi minimalism” – artificial excreta as a metaphor for dramatized emotional wallowing. The work also apparently winks at “insider signifiers of contemporary art discourse,” as doe urine is attractive to stags but displeasing to humans, just as artspeak is somewhat legible within art circles but generally repugnant.’

 

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Tomokazu Matsuyama Holy Urine, 2012
acrylic on canvas

 

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Gavin Turk Artist’s Piss, 2021
‘Over the last month, The Artist has been canning his own urine in a modified canning factory at his studio in Canning Town, East London. Through this act, the artist has created a minimal impact artwork for a profligate society that has everything the heart could desire. The body waste has been put through the recycling of art history, canned in a limited edition super shiny recycled aluminium can with the title of the work Artist’s Piss translated into 30 languages.’

 

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Katherine Bauer Teenage Dream Sequence: Seduction of the Eye, 2013
milk, egg, urine, champagne on b/w photosensitive fiber paper

 

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David Hammons Pissed Off, 1981
‘Richard Serra was on a roll in NYC in 1980. In the run-up to the debut of Tilted Arc, he had two Cor-Ten sculptures installed in Tribeca: St John’s Rotary Arc was in the exit plaza of the Holland Tunnel, and T.W.U. (above) was in front of the Franklin St. entrance for the IND subway. It was named for the Transport Workers Union, which had just gone on an 11-day strike as the sculpture was being installed.

‘By 1981, T.W.U. was looking a little beat, strewn with empties, and covered with wheatpasted flyers and graffiti. That’s when Dawoud Bey shot a series of photos of David Hammons pissing on the sculpture. The sequence apparently begins with Hammons in khakis, Pumas, and a dashiki, with a matching shoulder bag, just standing there in the south-facing space of Serra’s sculpture. In the next photo, he’s turned away from the camera, doing his business.

‘Then we see Hammons, talking with an NYPD officer, presenting papers, maybe a passport? The caption reads, “David Hammons receiving a citation from a police officer.” Which might have happened! But really, we don’t know. These photos are not journalism; they’re documentation of a performance Hammons titled Pissed Off. I don’t know when or how the title emerged; it’s hard to trace the historic trajectory of Hammons’ practice apart from the art world’s later embrace/interpretation of it.’

 

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Nick Black Super-Awesome Urine-Recycling Alien, 2012
‘A giant floating bulbous faced alien with a raygun peeing pink pee into a giant vat. The pee is constantly recycled, so there is never an end to the urinating.’

See it in action here

 

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Elsa Sahal Fontaine, 2012
ceramic, hydraulic system

 

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Joaquin Abella Urine Jigsaw Puzzle, 2013
‘Challenge your brain with a jigsaw puzzle designed by an independent artist!’

 

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Anthony Goicolea Pisser, 1999
Colour cibachrome from a black and white negative, laminated, mounted on sintra

 

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Cassils Pissed, 2017
‘This tank of glowing urine manifests what may seem abstract in discussion: the physical burden placed on an individual body when bathroom access is restricted by discriminatory policy. PISSED is a collection of all the liquid excreted by the artist in the 200 days following the Trump administration’s 2017 rollback of an Obama-era executive order allowing transgender students to use the bathroom matching their chosen gender identities.’

 

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Agness Buya Yombwe Two Lizzards | Sharing One Stomach, 2019
‘Agness Buya Yombwe explores indigenous knowledge systems, especially Mbusa taboos, placing the woman’s voice at the center.’

 

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Kiki Smith Pee Body, 1992
‘A work in which Smith “explores” (as the sign says) “the female body and its private performance of basic functions.”‘

 

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Alice Potts Boxers Sample, 2018
‘Alice Potts combines sports equipment and fashion materials with crystallized objects, composed by the act of urinating. By utilizing a ‘unique materialization [process] of the individuals own biology,’ Potts bridges a visual representation of the unseen beauty of urination with a natural process to ‘create our own accessories.”

 

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Jay Rechsteiner Three boys & two girls are torturing, beating disabled girl & making her drink urine, 2013
acrylic on canvas

 

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Motoyuki Daifu untitled (pee), 2021
‘untitled (pee)
‘It is very hard to live freely
‘without being trapped by the world.
‘I hope that the scorching sunshine
‘will shine on the concrete and make it all go away.’

 

 

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