TOILET SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF SEWER PROTESTANTISM
Lecture performance, 2025Recording of the performance at Moderna Muséet in Stockholm:
“We live in a time where it is difficult to understand even the most basic stuff around us. What is that thing? What does it do? Why is it even here to begin with? Toiletphiles argue that the thing called civilization began not with the advent of written language but with the first toilet. Waste control allowed individuals to quit wandering the earth trying to escape their dung and finally settle down.
The speculative claim that is the lecture performance ‘Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism’ tells a story of how our butts got tied to the sewer system, how we learnt to perceive our senses through the modern invention of waste management and how our souls underwent a profound spiritual rewiring brought about by the shifting regimes of power controlling our excrements.”
Written together with Mandus Ridefelt
