Songs for the Renewal
(2025- in progress)

Interactive Installation: Sound triggered ceramic fountains, ceramic whistles and water whistles

Songs for the Renewal is a ritualistic site consisting of six indoor fountains, each displaying a urinating female human-like figure and a set of whistles, water whistles, and other ritualistic vessels and instruments. The fountains are interactive and sound-triggered, each attuned and activated by a different whistle. The ritual surrounding these objects is known to have been performed for renewals. However, the exact nature of the ritual remains unclear, inviting the audience to speculate and participate by playing with the instruments. 

Songs for the Renewal is the culmination of my long-term research on the representation and taboos surrounding female bodies in Western art history, as well as the intersection of the exploitation of nature and women's rights. My interest in gender and urination also considers the ecological impact, from harvesting hormones through farming pregnant mares to environmental hormonal pollution (so-called feminization of the environment), which leads to fertility issues in many species and contributes to a broader alienation from natural bodily functions and the environment.

To address the various stories, concerns, and facts gathered in my theoretical research, I have crafted a speculative fiction: a future where hormonal pollution has reached such extremes that an overload of estrogen has dissolved traditional genders, making all species rather feminine. Human societies remaining in this world have evolved distinct cultures, technologies, and beliefs from our own. In their cosmology, the world was created by seven sisters who sat to relieve themselves, and from their streams of urine, their world emerged.

The six fountains in Songs for the Renewal  depict the seven sisters, and the ritualistic site serves as a sanctuary for performing rituals such as renewing relationships and reciprocity with the cosmos. Drawing from today's world as a starting point, this future reimagines gender roles and bodily fluids, turning the artifacts of Songs for the Renewal  into souvenirs of a possible alternative reality.