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  • 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.
  • Fotografie
  • Lichaam
  • Mens
  • piss
  • Beeldende kunst

  • 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...

  • It's Electric!

    Electric pee in Rio de Janeiro

    Every year the city of Rio de Janeiro has to deal with the same reoccurring problem. The many people at the Carnival pee in the streets. With this in mind, AfroReggae and JWT came up with a way to...

  • 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 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pissing in Perfect Cursive

    Lou Buche's Pee-Project

    What may have started as a “seriously drunk” act on a snowy Amsterdam night turned into something much more rousing. For artist Lou Buche, a quick piss stop on the trek home from a drunken night led...

  • Peter Trimble

    Furniture made out of sand, urine and bacteria.

    Did you ever wonder about the power of your pee? Peter Trimble did. For his thesis project he investigated the possibilities of bacteria and the urea found in urine. What he found was a way to...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • When can we start to objectify our hair?

    Human Hair Transformation by Zsofia Kollar

    Zsofia Kollar is a designer who uses hair as the primary medium. The human hair has many capabilities due to their nutrients. For this collection, Zsofia experiments with the hair as an absorbent...

  • 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 Dirt We Carry

    Self Portrait by Amanda Cotton

    For three months, Amanda Cotton documented her life using her face wipes for her ‘Self Portrait’ . These face wipes not only show the removed makeup, but also the dirt and oil that is inevitably...

  • Urinal research

    Different waterless urinals for the installation on the facade

    This document contains information of the waterless urinals, the different compagnies we've been in contact with and the latest contact details.

  • What makes urine a turn on?

    Talking about golden showers with Mistress Kalyss Mercury

    Water sports are still a taboo. You don't find many people who are willing to discuss the subject. Kalyss Mercury is an exception. Professional dominatrix for years and kink research pioneer, she...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Public Intimacy

    Pissing in the City

    The design of public toilets can tell us a lot more about society than you expect...
  • project: Anna Pedersen

    GoGirl

    Don't take life sitting down

    Life's greatest adventure shouldn't be finding a bathroom. GoGirl is the feminine urination device that lets you go anywhere. Simply put, a GoGirl is a way to stand up to crowded, disgusting

  • Getting Drunk From Saliva

    Anivor - Alcohol made of saliva by Sydney Schaefer

    Saliva contains an enzyme called Amylase. When Amylase is combined with starch, which you can find in for example rice, it creates sugar. To create alcohol one only needs to combine sugar and yeast.

  • Capturing human scent through enfleurage

    In reference to Patrick Süskind’s Das Parfum

    Patrick S ü skind’s Das Parfum (or Perfume: Story of a Murderer) is considered our cult classic. It tells us a story of a man with a superhuman sense of smell who we know as Jean-Baptise Grenouille.

  • Pee lust

    Speaking of water sports – but not the summery ones

    On this blog we want to go beyond social taboos and question fixed categories, besides, of course, discussing any possible aspects regarding pee. Thus, little by little, we got there too: sexual...

  • 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.

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