KURATOR  curating + research

The Museum of Ordure (formerly UK Museum of Ordure) is a project initiated with the intention to explore the curatorial value of ordure, and the management of human waste.

Acting Director, Rosse Y. Sirb

The Museum’s website is currently being redeveloped.

Countries:

United Kingdom

Link:

http://www.ordure.org/

Everything that is represented in the Museum of Ordure is subject to the vagaries of an uncontrolled internal auto-destructive process which slowly deforms and disables all information held in the museum. This is comparable to the decaying processes which affect all artifacts in museums, regardless of all attempts at preservation: the retouching, repainting, cleaning, etc, which are incorporated risks to the purity of artifacts when first acquired by museums. Even ‘successful’ renovations are subject to periodic changes resulting from shifts in conservation policies. Eventually (and in accordance with the fallibilities of memory) artifacts are institutionally, progressively, determinedly and inadvertantly altered by acts of conservation (sometimes unintentional acts of institutional vandalism) until they cease to be recognisable as the objects first acquired. Of course in both cases - in the virtual environment and in the material world - the processes of generation, decay, and entropy are paramount. Museums are by this definition charged with achieving the impossible.

More information, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Museum_of_Ordure

Acting Director, Rosse Y. Sirb
Of uncertain origins, Rosse Yael Sirb first came to notice in the 1950s while serving in the Mixed Services Organisation attached to the British Army of the Rhine, where he was charged with being a portable latrine thief. He gained a certain Je ne sais quois by releasing one thousand cockroaches in the German Museum of Hygiene in Dresden. Currently he is a curator at the UK Museum of Ordure.