The Central West Village Voice has published a review of Cementa, entitled “Cementa 2026: Kandos Becomes the Canvas” – which includes a brief mention of Pootopia. At the centre was Pootopia, an exhibition that managed to be funny, confronting and thought-provoking all at once. The wonderfully named “Turdis” composting toilet invited visitors to learn about …
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2BS FM interview with Damien de Montemas
In the heat of the Cementa Festival, Kim and Lucas took time out from interacting with punters and poo-ers at The Turdis, to have a chat with Damien de Montemas from 2BS FM, a radio station in Bathurst. Damien is fully signed up to the cult of Pootopia! We expect corporate investment to start rolling …
ABC Radio interview with Fairlie Hamilton
In the lead up to Cementa 26, Kim and Lucas were interviewed by the very entertaining and erudite Fairlie Hamilton, of ABC Illawarra. You can listen to the interview here:
Memo Review covers Cementa and Pootopia
Laura Luciana has written a thoughtful review of Cementa 26 over at Memo Review, which also includes discussion of Pootopia. Here’s the paragraph about Pootopia and The Turdis: A different provocation was offered by Kim Williams and Lucas Ihlein, who are frequent collaborators of the Kandos School for Cultural Adaptation (run by local creative director …
The Turdis on Channel 7 TV news
“Kandos is ready to get weird and whacky again this weekend, with the return of Cementa…” – classic commercial TV news intro! …anyway, here’s a little video which shows The Turdis’ first appearance on the idiot box, as part of a little spot about Cementa Festival. Thanks Channel 7!
KRR FM Radio Kandos – Pootopia Interview with Angela Stretch
Love this one! — tune in to hear the dulcet tones of Angela Stretch interviewing Pootopia’s Kim and Lucas at Radio KRR, the radio station located on the main street of Kandos during the 2026 Cementa Festival. In this interview, we discuss: the origins of Pootopia in the canefields of North Queensland; how FLUSHING increases …
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Wollongong artists create hot pink crapper where users are rewarded in ‘s—coin’
There was a shitload of media coverage of The Turdis at Cementa 2026! First cab off the rank is an article by Ben Langford, published on 11 Sept (before the festival), in the Illawarra Mercury. Here’s the article as a PDF. Here’s a link to the original article (paywall). And here is the article as …
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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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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 …