Peeing in Public. An inventory of the Wildest Urinators

by Geiger Thomas

Peeing in public is a battle, played out on fields economical, political, technological and sexual. Moreover, it is one battle fought continuously within sphere of gender; gender equality, gender identity and gender-based violence. The question of when, where and how is certainly a preoccupation for all kinds of people. These range from the Roman Emperor Vespasian, who discovered that there is money in urine; to Xi Jinping, who announced the Toilet Revolution; or Hillary Clinton, who upon returning late to a televised debate, simply stated “well, it takes women longer”.

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[nathan · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5

"..𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 2013."

Timely for me to read this as Margiela just unveiled 𝘉𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 in Antwerp, a play on public and private, and how do we create privacy in public places when surveillance continues to become a norm in the way we document our lives?

Title says it all. Spanning across history, we get art after art, demonstration after demonstration, on a bowel movement that haunts our daily lives. What passes must pass, and sometimes the most private parts of who we are need to be exposed in public.

[Isai Soto · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Julián Floria Cantero · Rating 4 out of 5]

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