Launching at the KSCA exhibition The Art of Adaptation at Manly Art Gallery & Museum is the newest edition of Glimpses of Pootopia journal. Click here to download a PDF of the journal issue. Editor’s Introduction: Many curly questions surround the topic of human manure composting. Here at Glimpses of Pootopia, we frequently receive correspondence …
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Poo and Wee – (by Kim Williams) – the Karaoke Video
Announcing a new song from the genius mind of Kim Williams. We performed Poo and Wee at the launch of the KSCA exhibition at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, with the help of young Fergus, and the KSCA “Better-Out-Than-In” Choir. The karaoke video here, which was produced by the legends at WayWard Films, is exhibited …
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2026 – The Turdis on Tour!
In 2026, The Turdis will be on tour! Travelling hither and thither to educate, entertain and edify – a bright pink laxative to the morally constipated citizens of NSW! Here’s what we know so far: Manly Art Gallery and Museum (MAG&M) Fri 10 April to Sun 7 June, 2026 …as part of KSCA‘s exhibition The …
Madame Crappington speaks to Aunty
Pootopia’s Madame Crappington* was invited to speak to Chris Calcino from ABC Radio in Far North Queensland last week. FNQ was in the grips of Tropical Cyclone Narelle, and oil prices were (and still are) soaring due to the Iran-Israel-USA war. With all the shit going down in the world right now, we’re not surprised …
Pootopia featured in UOW SDG report 2024
Pootopia is not only an art project, and a community engagement project, and an environmental campaign. It’s also an research project for artists, economists, and scientists at University of Wollongong. In this report (12mb PDF file) UOW celebrates some of its research activities which align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Pootopia is featured on …
TURDIS World Premiere – short documentary video
Here’s a new video documentary from the launch of The Turdis at Wollongong Botanic Gardens, November 2024: Thanks to WayWard Films for producing this documentary!
The TURDIS World Premiere – 2 Nov 2024
Join us for the WORLD PREMIERE public appearance of The TURDIS. We are partnering with the Wollongong Botanic Gardens to provide toileting services for the upcoming SUPER SATURDAY PLANT SALE. Time: 730am-2pm Location: Greenplan Nursery at Botanic Gardens – enter via 65 Northfields Avenue, North Wollongong. The TURDIS is an innovation of the Pootopia research …
Pootopia at the Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award
We put together a small installation based around the Yours and Owls documentary video, for the recent Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Award at Manly Art Gallery and Museum. On the shelf are three ‘vintages’ of humanure we have created in recent years – from Port Kembla, Capertee Valley, and the Yours and Owls …
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Doctorin’ the Turdis!
New #pootopia phase! We commissioned a custom hot pink water tank to transform into a fully portable V.I.Poo Mark2 composting dunny! Thanks to @rotoplasrainwatertanks for fabricating this beauty for us, manufactured right here in the ‘gong (actually #unanderra of course). We will offer this to lucky crappers at the @wollongongbotanicgarden super Saturday plant sale in …
Waste Not Want Not (article in Region Illawarra)
Region Illawarra has published an interview with Pootopia artist Kim Williams, celebrating a grant awarded by Wollongong’s wonderful Culture Bank. You can read the article here. Thanks to Region Illawarra journalist Zoe Cartwright for the media coverage, and thank you Culture Bank for the funds!