Installations

The drink.pee.drink.pee.drink.pee installation was part of Eyebeam's Feedback exhibition in 2008.

Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray, DrinkPeeDrinkPeeDrinkPee, 2008.
Mixed media, 12 x 12 x 12 ft (3.65 cu meters). Photographer: Christine Butler. Image courtesy of Eyebeam.

The installation invites visitors to sit on the toilet while facing the water fountain, as if to drink while peeing. Standing in the center provides a visceral human-sized experience of the invisible water and life cycles we often unwittingly take part in. One path of tubing diverts urine from the toilet into the first aquarium causing toxic conditions similar to those created in waterways by our existing sewage treatment infrastructure. Another path diverts urine through a handmade treatment process, covered in scribbled personal notes, that extracts nutrients for use in a house plant and liquids for use in a healthy aquarium and water fountain.