Death Of The Etiquette And Manner

PUBLIC AND TOILET do not sit well together. The antagonism goes beyond words. Using the facility involves intensely private acts. Beyond these private issues, there are also real public concerns: problems of public access, ecological waste, and in many parts of the world is sanitation crisis. We know that these spaces are important for living daily life and with the life oriented around waged labour, people are increasingly living in urban areas, and overwhelming majority leave their homes for work, school, household errands, or shopping every day. These circumstances mean that the majority of people will by necessity have to use toilets other than those located in their own homes. Indeed, we can safely assume that most people used a public toilet at least once in their life, and a large majority use them every day. By placing the object into unexpected public spaces, such as the park and the playground, this project aims to create awareness about the public toilet and challenge the viewers to rethink their own stance towards the unpleasant space. Why after we use it, we do not clean it? Why do we not flush after we use it? Why we left tissues on the floor? Why do we not use the toilet brush? Why do we not wipe the seat if we have sprinkled on it? Why do we need to hope for other people like the cleaner to clean up our mess? Why do we not treat public toilet like the ones in our homes? Do we ever think of other people which will be using the toilet after us? As mentioned by Biggs L. at the Folkestone Triennial 2017, “art is somehow a tool of reminding of our stupidity as a human being, art is a lifeline to the reality”.