The Museum of Ordure’s Mission is to examine: 

1. The cultural value of ordure, shit, rubbish. 
2. The waste of human resources through various ownership, production, and management regimes. 
   What is shit for some, has value for others.¹  

The Museum of Ordure was a project by Stuart Brisley, Geoff Cox and Adrian Ward. It is a self-institution concerned with the management of human waste, the mandate for clean and proper language and the Internet as “an image dump”.²  

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Geoff Cox has a research interest in software studies and contemporary aesthetics. He is Associate Professor and co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University, also Visiting Associate Professor at Aarhus University working the research project The Contemporary Condition. He co-runs a yearly workshop/publication in collaboration with transmediale festival in Berlin since 2012, is co-editor of the associated open access online journal APRJA. He is also co-editor of the open-access DATA browser book series published by Open Humanities Press and the co-author of Speaking Code: coding as aesthetic and political expression (MIT Press 2013). See Geoff’s full bio here:

Conceived by Stuart Brisley, Geoff Cox and Adrian Ward, The Museum of Ordure has since 2001 developed a collection reflecting its curator Rosse Yael Sirb’s obsession with ‘dirt: dung: excrement: anything unclean‘.

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Nastja Säde Rönkkö is an artist living in London and Helsinki. She works with video, performance, installation, participatory art, internet and text. Her projects investigate the relationship between the digital era, power, humanity and the future of our planet. She is particularly fascinated with how concepts such as love, slowness or affection can be silent yet radical ways to be and act in the world. Her practice dreams about the future and explores presence through politics and poetics of emotion. See Nastja’s full bio here.

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