Secretopia is an inquiry into human secretions through art, science and design. After exploring the potential of urine in The Pis’ Project, we decided to expand the programme to all sorts of human secretions. The Pis’ Project turned into Secretopia. In our events and blogs we consider bodily fluids in association with artists and organisations to explore them in a multidisciplinary manner.
Biomaterial Designer, Alice Potts, is fascinated by sweat and she wants you to get fascinated too! Fashioning this vital bodily fluid into crystals for garments, shoes and sportswear, Potts asks us to reconsider the potential of our bodies.
The new Covid19 restrictions means it's time for those creative hobbies to come out of the woodwork again! Or, perhaps you are looking for something creative and different... have you considered experimenting with the parts of your body to which you are ignorant or disgusted by? Try reading…
Throughout the Covid19 lockdown, there has been a 47% increase in the use of the internet as the world has turned to technology to connect with loved ones. This has made the research of Lancel/Maat increasingly urgent as they investigate intimacy through digitisation, attempting to push the…
How has shit guided the logic of urban planning in Europe?
“That which occupies the site of disgust at one moment in history is not necessarily disgusting at the preceding moment or the subsequent one” - Dominique Laporte
Re-appropriating, re-membering, and re-presenting the body and its remains is something that runs throughout all the work of Mexican artist Teresa Margolles. Her oeuvre is one of the best examples to discuss the relationship between secretions, death, and memory. Margolles’ work is mainly concerned…
When we think about secretions, the first thing that comes to mind could be sweat or piss. “Secretion” sounds like something that is produced by a living body. But what happens when we think of this body as a secretion itself?
