r/TheArtOfPee

There is an art installation in the Austria pavilion at the Venice Biennale right now that includes a tank of filtered and sanitized pee (from the adjacent portable toilets) where performers spend hours at a time breathing with scuba.

>which Florentina Holzinger has turned into a toilet and sewage-treatment plant in which a series of naked female performers are living. Better known in the worlds of theatre and dance, the Austrian’s productions are famously brutal... Here however she simply asks visitors to take a piss, in one of two portable toilets, the product of which circulates through the pavilion’s chambers in a manner that mimics the water exchange of the Venice Lagoon’s tidal cycles. And our pollution of them.

https://artreview.com/venice-biennale-2026-national-pavilion-highlights/