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Kick off the fall season with us at ISCP! Next Tuesday, October 6, from 6:30–7:30pm, join us for Artists at Work, where artist-in-residence Madeleine Andersson will present her thought-provoking performative lecture, 'Toilet Science and the Rise of Sewer Protestantism.'

Beginning with the proposition that “the thing called civilization began not with the advent of written language but with the first toilet,” Andersson will trace the historical relationship between the human body and modern sewer systems. She will examine how the development of waste-management infrastructure reshaped sensory experience and ideas about cleanliness, morality, and the body, and consider these transformations in relation to shifting social, spiritual, and political structures governing bodily waste.

About the artist 🗣️

Andersson's practice proposes alternative historizations and speculative structures to expose and disrupt the psychosocial dimensions of knowledge production. Her multidisciplinary work across video, sculpture, and performance brings together academic discourse, scientific instruments, pseudoscientific excitement, social media, and horror films in playful installations. Through these unexpected combinations, Andersson investigates the intersection of science and pop culture, self-experimentation, quests for inner truth, and encounters with perversion.

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Image: Madeleine Andersson, ‘Toilet Science and the Rise of Sewer Protestantism,’ 2026, lecture performance, 55 min. taken in Brooklyn, New York by @madeleine_andersson_

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19 days ago

Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism
Lecture Performance, 55 min, 2025
Performed at Moderna Museet Stockholm and Art Hub Copenhagen.

“We live in a time where it is difficult to understand even the most basic stuff around us. What is that thing? What does it do? Why is it even here to begin with? Toiletphiles argue that the thing called civilization began not with the advent of written language but with the first toilet. Waste control allowed individuals to quit wandering the earth trying to escape their dung and finally settle down.

The speculative claim that is the lecture performance ‘Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism’ tells a story of how our butts got tied to the sewer system, how we learnt to perceive our senses through the modern invention of waste management and how our souls underwent a profound spiritual rewiring brought about by the shifting regimes of power controlling our excrements.”

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Written together with @__rosetta__stoned__ by @madeleine_andersson_

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3 months ago

Happy Spiraling
Group show at @msuzagreb curated by @organvida_festival

”Degenerative Knowledge Production” is a multi-material research project that questions the crisis of contemporary science through a narrative of compulsive self-experimentation, collective stupidity and a post-truth world. The project builds on the concept of degeneration historically understood as a threat to social order, today encompassing biological, medical and mathematical dimensions, exploring what knowledge can do, what stories it can shape, and who holds the power to construct them.”

Thanks to @l0vro @lalalua @mondenka by @madeleine_andersson_

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4 months ago

Den globale økonomien dobles i størrelse nesten hvert 20. år parallelt med at ulikheten mellom de rikeste ti prosentene og resten har økt eksponensielt siden 1980-tallet. De rike blir rikere, og de fattige blir fattigere. I denne prosessen utvinner vi jordens ressurser til det ekstreme, omformer dem til varer vi kun bruker en kort stund før de kastes, og tar for oss på en måte som ikke er bærekraftig. Denne tanken om uendelig vekst bryter med planetens livssykluser, skaper stadig større klimaendringer og fører til store tap av vill natur. Men vekstillusjonen slår sprekker i det konsekvensene av vårt overforbruk gjør seg stadig synligere. Vi vet dette ikke kan fortsette, men hva er våre alternativ?

Med gruppeutstillingen ‘Motvek(s)t’ ønsker vil å bryte ut av eventyrfortellingen om evig vekst. Utstillingen presenterer verk av Ida Immonen (FI/NO), Istvan Virag (HU/NO), Madeleine Andersson (SE) og Marie Thams (DK) som alle retter kritiske blikk mot kapitalismens vekstparadigme og arbeidslivet som det eksisterer i dag. Gjennom deres ulike praksiser åpner de for andre måter å forstå verdi, arbeid, tid og fellesskap på, og inviterer til å forestille oss alternative rammeverk.

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Utstillingen er realisert med generøs støtte fra Kulturrådet og Oslo kommune. Følgeprogrammet er støttet av Fritt Ord. Statens Kunstfond har støttet Marie Thams’ verksproduksjon.

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6 months ago

Lecture performance: Perversion of Science by Madeleine Andersson & Mandus Ridefelt

Tueday, December 16th
19:00CET
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The history of science is one of the normative. What happens when you are obsessed with the norm? It quickly turns to the question of the anomaly.

Join artist Madeleine Andersson and biologist/writer/artist Mandus Ridefelt for Perversion of Science, a lecture performance obsessed with the anomalous. We will trace scientific methodology shifts according to what our idea of a legible experiment is - impacting on the ways experiments are designed. We observe, lick and poke at the existential dimensions of self-experimentation and place the pervert as the antagonist of a kind of knowledge that doesn’t accept boundaries, be they ethical, planetary or of the self.

Madeleine Andersson is an artist based in Copenhagen, with a research-based practice positioned at the intersection of science and pop culture. The work by Andersson has previously exhibited at Kunsthall Trondheim (2025), Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2025), O–Overgaden, Copenhagen (2024), documenta institute, Kassel (2024), Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen (2024) and Färgfabriken,Stockholm (2023).

Mandus Ridefelt is a writer and science communicator living in Copenhagen. His work concerns science, art and philosophy as conceptual constellations and infrastructural speculation. He has worked with a range of organizations including International Society for Artificial Life, Index Foundation (SE), Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research, Diakron (DK), Medialab Matadero (ES), Simiyya (EG/DK). taken in Discord by @madeleine_andersson_

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10 months ago

10K VIRGIN BRAINS
Solo exhibition at @kunsthalltrondheim

“An exhibition unfolding as an eerie labyrinth within the basement of Kunsthall Trondheim. Across fourteen channels, brain-based imagery draws the audience from the external world into an interior psychological space — a strange, violent, and sensual process of identification with any pink, pulsating mass that appears on the screens.”

Thanks to @j________r________ and @oystercrackersandwiches

Photo by @evelinaelere by @madeleine_andersson_

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a year ago

In an era where artificial intelligence increasingly shapes our world, what distinguishes genuine intelligence from its absence?

Andersson’s 10K VIRGIN BRAINS confronts this question through thousands of white plastic containers that occupy Kunsthall Trondheim, mirroring The Brain Collection at the University of Southern Denmark—a repository of over 9,479 ‘virgin’ brains extracted from patients predominantly diagnosed with mental illnesses, but never influenced by pharmaceuticals.

These containers form an eerie labyrinthine installation throughout the Kunsthall’s sublevel basement galleries, drawing visitors from the external world into an internal confrontation with themselves through encounters with fragments of brain-based imagery, mostly pulled from the internet. Animated lab gloves also reach into this maze like disembodied hands emerging through walls—spectral appendages that evoke both brain-eating zombies and the grasping hands of neuroses, inhibition, and morality.

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Exhibition was developed with @overgaden_ and @indexstockholm

Special thanks to @__rosetta__stoned__
@j________r________ @oystercrackersandwiches

📸Photos by @evelinaelere

More info on the exhibition on our website! by @madeleine_andersson_

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a year ago

SHOCK VALUE
Solo exhibition at @indexstockholm

Up until August 24th!

"An exhibition connecting the shocking-nature of our attention economy with our magnetic need for the abject with the dirty and messy aspects of science and its implications in grasping the human mind."

Photo: Aron Skoog by @madeleine_andersson_

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a year ago

Bataille’s flies
Loop, 2024

Close-up video of flies tearing off their own heads.

Photo credit:
2: David Stjernholm
3: Aron Skoog by @madeleine_andersson_

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a year ago

Ding-dong-daddy, 2024

Photo: David Stjernholm by @madeleine_andersson_

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Knock, knock
Wood, 2024

A sculptural reinterpretation of the mortsafe – a protective iron cage used by British and American churches in the 17th and 18th centuries to prevent grave robbing. At the time, state-controlled autopsies were limited due to Christian doctrine, giving rise to an illegal trade in corpses to advance medical research.

Photo: David Stjernholm by @madeleine_andersson_

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2 years ago

Vi er meget glade for også at kunne præsentere Madeleine Andersson som en del af AKKs kunstnerkatalog!

Madeleine Andersson arbejder tværfagligt med video, skulptur og performance. Hendes værker blander teori, videnskab, pseudovidenskab, sociale medier og gyserfilm i legende installationer. Madeleine Andersson forsker også, og her arbejder hun med alternative måder at forstå historien på og udfordrer, hvordan viden skabes. Madeleine Andersson er uddannet billedkunstner fra Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi.

Stills fra Madeleine Anderssons dokumentar “Toilet Science” (2023) og filmværk “Degenerative Knowledge Production” (2024) er her indsat i collager med billeder fra almene boligområder. Collagen er lavet af billedkunstner @gissssssa i samarbejde med AKK – Almene Kunstklubber. by @madeleine_andersson_

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