Spaziergang Nr. 6

eggerschlatter
THE DEPRECIATION OF SHIT IS OF METAPHYSICAL NATURE
Friday, February 26, 2010, 1 pm

Meeting point: Entsorgung und Recycling, Bändlistrasse 108, 8064 Zürich (tram No.4, stop: Werdhölzli)

Shit runs under our feet. Unspectacularly and excluded. As a seat of disease and carrier of bacteria, it is being channeled to sewage plants by highly elaborate piping systems. Excrements are the waste of our bodies and don’t fit the ideal of our clean lives and worlds. We are ashamed of it. Shit, however, is more than just insanitary bodily excretion. Things we consider “shit” are defined by a certain vulnerability, reminding us of our unspectacular existence. This is why these things are important to any society. The fragile beauty inherent in such objects or situations is often ignored. And this is also why, for once, we shall treat shit gracefully and with apt respect of its seclusion. (eggerschlatter)

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