Urin / photography, Frauke Joana ; writing, Ari Níelsson.
- Joana, Frauke
- Date:
- 2022
- Books
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"Urin combines Frauke Joana's visual explorations of urine's various material and social cultures with four essays by Ari Níelsson. Images of kinksters engaged in watersports emerge as part of a wider dialogue with poetry that mocks the oral hygiene of antiquity, Alexander Pope crossing streams with Lyndon B. Johnson and the Ghostbusters, and questions of infrastructure that bring us into constant view of Vespasian's truism, when introducing a tax on the urine collected from Rome's latrines to be sold to the tanning and dyeing industries, that 'Pecunia non olet' - money doesn't smell. Taking a wide-angle view on a topic inarguably universal to the human experience, Urin explores how this common wellspring quickly flows into a mess of particularities and contradictions across lines of gender, sexuality, medicine, language, industry, and urban planning, each emerging droplet catching the light in a different way."--From artist's website.
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Location Status History of MedicineTJ.ALOpen shelves