Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray (Britta & Rebecca) reconsider urine as a rich source of nutrients instead of a waste product with their project drink.pee.drink.pee.drink.pee. Not in the sense of urine therapy or as in the Hindu practice of Shivambu Kalpa, but as a urine-to-fertilizer transformation that removes the elements that are toxic to our waterways.
Participants begin by peeing in a jar and returning it to the desk. While your urine is going thru the necessary reaction, you are informed of what actually happens after you flush your home toilet. Not only do you realize that all of the world’s urine is creating harmful algae blooms, but you’re reminded too of the ever increasing number of people who are sold the pharmaceutical line that pills will cure your ills and that all of those chemicals have to go somewhere…and where they go, and ultimately stay, is inside our planet’s closed, cycling water system. Soon after the talk, you’re presented with a container of houseplant-ready fertilizer made from your urine.
