Piss Soap
Piss Soap is a deviant and regenerative soap entirely made out of human activity wastes.
Piss Soap has a positive impact on our urban spaces and life. The raw materials (used cooking oil, wood ashes and human urine) are found in snack bars, public spaces, toilets, and are usually discarded. Piss Soap proposes a new circular ecology where both the public services and inhabitants can benefit from their own waste, while keeping our streets cleaned.
Right now, sustainability seems to be a light approach to counteract the environmental deterioration. As a result, we need to create regenerative processes that directly impact positively this tendency. Piss Soap have a strong ecological added value as it consumes and transforms waste into a product that will dissolve after its use.
Piss Soap is regenerative and can be easily implemented locally as its production requires very little energy and domestic appliances.
WaterSpiegelingen - cuyperhuis roermond
15/06/24 -05/01/25
Explore innovative pieces like the Piss Soap and Urine-Diverting Dry Toilet, presented in collaboration with the Waterschool of Studio Makkink & Bey and Cuypershuis.
In this time of climate crisis, there are acute challenges such as land subsidence, water security, extreme precipitation, heat and drought. Water represents the most challenging and complex risk facing humanity: there is too much, too little or it is too dirty. More than 80% of all emergencies and disasters caused by climate change are water related: floods and droughts, pollution and water conflicts with rapid urbanization, the growing demand for food and energy, migration and climate change. These challenges form the basis of the new exhibition WaterMirrations , which can be seen in the Cuypershuis from June 15.
Water Pressure - MK&G Hamburg
15/03/24 -13/10/24
Piss Soaps on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg for the exhibition "Water Pressure", Bodily waters section
Water – whether too much or too little, clean or unsafe – is one of the most pressing human preoccupations. Already, 40% of the world’s population is affected by water scarcity and, with human-induced climate change, this is getting much worse. “Water Pressure: Designing for the Future” – an exhibition of the MK&G and Jane Withers Studio – looks at the water crisis from a global perspective, displaying ideas and proposals that illuminate the potential for shaping a radically different future. About 75 innovative works from the fields of design, architecture, art and science – based in many cases on natural principles – open up new routes to overcoming the current situation. Conceived as an odyssey in five parts, the exhibition presents inspiring solutions to global issues such as water scarcity, flooding, pollution and disrupted hydrological cycles. A closer look is taken at the port city of Hamburg and the current and future challenges it faces, from flooding to water shortages.
Events
Design fair 24 - Het nieuwe instituut
26/05/2024
Piss Collection & Exchange of Piss soaps during the Design Fair 2024 at Het Nieuwe Instituut
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Rotterdam, NL
Water Pressure - MK&G Hamburg
15/03/24 - 13/10/24
Piss Soaps on display at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg for the exhibition "Water Pressure", Bodily waters section
MK&G
Hamburg, DE
The new store at ddw23
Exchange of Piss soaps during the Dutch Design Week 2023 at the New Store with Het Nieuwe Instituut
Residency for the People,
Eindhoven, NL
The new store at ddw23
Collection even during the Dutch Design Week 2023 at the New Store with Het Nieuwe Instituut
Residency for the People,
Eindhoven, NL
Workshop at Mediamatic
29/10/2023
Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam, NL
Workshop at W139
07/10/2023
Warmoesstraat 139, 1012 JB Amsterdam
Bauhaus in residency
Piss Soap was in residency at Gleis21 to make Piss Soaps with the community
Gleis21, Vienna, AU
Culture moves europe support
Mobility Fund awarded by Culture Moves Europe for the Bauhaus in Residency program.
Gleis21, Vienna, AU
Workshop at mediamatic
09/07/2023
Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam, NL
Blue faith piss collection
Urine collection event and toilet encounter facilitation
Club Church, Amsterdam, NL
Nomadic Piss soap Workflows
Grant project awarded by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst
Amsterdam, NL
Creative Climate Collective at COP27, supported by Climate Action x Design grant Creative Industries Fund NL
Green Zone, Sharm el Sheik, EG
Piss, Death, Stress, project presentation, part of Penny for your Thoughts, presented at Mediamatic
Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
EMPATHIC BOOT CAMP TO DISGUST: PISS SOAP
Interactive multimedia installation, at Grey Space in the Middle, curated by Queer Leiden University
The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, NL
Piss Soap joins the library of Future Materials Bank, an archive of materials that supports and promotes the transition towards ecologically conscious art and design practices, in collaboration with the MA Material Futures at UAL Central Saint Martins and the Green Art Lab Alliance (GALA).
Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
Pornceptual Piss Collection
Urine collection event and toilet encounter facilitation
Club Parallel, Amsterdam, NL
Blue Fluid Piss Collection
Urine collection event and toilet encounter facilitation
Club Church, Amsterdam, NL
NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS PRIZES 2022
Finalist New European Bauhaus Prizes, category Shaping a circular ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking
Gare Maritime, Brussels, BE
DISTRIBUTED DESIGN AWARDS 2021
Winner of Distributed Design Award 2021, category Future Thinking
EMPATHIC BOOT CAMP TO DISGUST: PISS SOAP
Interactive multimedia installation, at NDSM Fuse, curated by Beyond Photography
NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam, NL
EMPATHIC BOOT CAMP TO DISGUST: PISS SOAP
Video tutorial presentation at Overkill Festival 2021, supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Sickhouse, Enschede, NL
Empathic Boot Camp to Disgust: Urotherapy
Video tutorial presentation at ‘WHEN THIS ALL COLLAPSES, HOW DO WE’, online event curated by Terrarista-TV, as part of the exhibition ‘Monitoring – Exhibition for Time-Based Media Art’
Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, DE
GOLDEN MC BETH EFFECT
Performance, interactive installation, supported by Berlage Fonds, presented at Gerrit Rietveld Academie – Graduation Show
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
