The Dung Beatles ~ ceramics and performance collaboration with Nissa Nishikawa
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A collaboration with artist, ceramicist and dancer Nissa Nishikawa. Together we have designed and made an alternative all-gender urinal/ “liquid loo” using stoneware clay (currently installed in Bethnal Green Nature Reserve), produced over 100 dung balls or ‘OMs’ containing organic matter and wild plant seeds to spread around the city, and moved with microbes under the microscope as part of Queer Ecologies Microbe Disco.

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two people stand in front of a microscope background greenscreen wearing tight fitting dance costumes and hats, they wiggle with their arms together forming a worm shape
someone kneels on the floor on a rug, holding a freshly rolled dung ball over a mixing bowl, with a brass coloured kettle in the background
view from above of Nissa Nishikawa sitting cross legged on a rug surrounded by brown, orange and grey dung balls, mixing bowls and a kettle surround her.
artist, Nissa Nishikawa stands smiling on a giant pile of leafmould, holding a handful of partially decomposed mulch. Bare trees and blue sky in the background
Nissa Nishikawa peers into a microscope, surrounded by soil samples in pots, an all-gender urinal in the background, and a full bookshelf
figure burrows under soil surface/ fabric, half submerged and surrounded by large ceramic orbs of pink, orange & white. Brown and orange dung balls are gathered in the foreground.
view from above of Nissa Nishikawa pouring water from a watering can on all-gender earthenware urinal
two people stand back to back, wiggling in front of a microscope background greenscreen wearing tight fitting dance costumes and hats,
two people stand in front of a microscope background greenscreen wearing tight fitting dance costumes, fake moustaches and hats, they are both lifting and bending their left legs with hands behind their backs