drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee is a project by Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray about the role our bodies play in larger ecosystems.The project includes an installation and a DIY kit for turning your pee into fertilizer. The installation will be on view and the DIY kits will be available at the exhibition at EyeBeam in NYC.
I have to admit that I am more than a little grossed out by this project. However, I think I am supposed to be. I admire the goal of Riley and Bray in their work, but I wonder how effective it is in the end. It seems that the DIY fertilizer kit is more effective and useful than the installation, but I can’t help but wonder if the fertilizer kit is art. ( I’m not sure it matters to Riley and Bray).
Tackling big social and scientific issues is certainly not an easy thing to do with art. Politically engaged art works tend to be overly didactic or scientific and end up alienating the viewer (I know from experience).
Still, its nice to see an artwork that is about drinking pee.
