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Re: [microsound] [OT] urination



Yes Warhol did a series of "piss paintings" (direct unmodified urination
onto canvas, or perhaps cardboard). And, more recently, there's Andres
Serrano's infamous *Piss Christ.*


Steve Poltawrote:

> Well, some things certainly come to mind, but, I don't
> know-the list *might* be interested to know that,
> Douglas Kahn, in his book NOISE WATER MEAT: A HISTORY
> OF SOUND IN THE ARTS has a long discussion on water
> slunds ands dripping in general across a spectrum of
> music, sound art and art in general. The discussion
> ranges from Cage to Yoko Ono to Warhol to various
> Fluxus artists but begins with the "drip" paintings of
> Jackson Pollack, includes his infamous pissing into
> Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace. The thread's origins are
> specifically located (according to the occasionally
> tongu-in-cheek Kahn) to the statement by the
> possibly-flippant Pollack that his main inspiration
> was observing his boyhood experience of observing his
> dad pissing on a rock.
> 
>> 
>>> dear list -
>>> 
>>> i'd like to compile a list of works or other
>> cultural activities
>>> [artist/title/date/short description] which use
>> the act of urination in
>>> some form.  this could be from film/video,
>> performance, drawing, music,
>>> circus, theatre, radio, sound art, installation,
>> various traditions, etc..
>>> 
>>> although of less immediate interest: the same
>> would apply to the void of
>>> other elements - defacation, vomiting, spitting,
>> ejaculating, etc..
>>> 
>>> i guess off-list is best. non?
>>> 
>>> cheers
>>> b.
>>> 
>>> 
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