Artist Saves 200 Days Worth of Urine for Exhibit

Transgender performance artist Cassils has spent 200 days collecting his urine for the work PISSED, as part of his larger exhibition titled Monumental.

The collection began February 26 of this year, when Trump decided to rescind the Obama order to allow trans people to use bathrooms of their choosing. Since then Cassils has collected and stored every drop of urine he’s passed in protest, and the end result is now stored in a 200-gallon container in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery in New York. Turns out the yellow don’t stay so mellow if you try and keep it, so Cassils had to outsource some biochem knowledge to find a chemical he could add to the urine to keep it fresh.

“My wife, who is a former dominatrix, knows a dominatrix who also has a PhD. in biochemistry and if you go to her website it says “PhDeviant,” he said in an interview with HuffPost. “Her name is Mistress Snow Mercy and I called her up and she totally hooked me up.”

Mistress Snow Mercy got him onto the chemical borax which helps to kill the bacteria in urine. Armed 24/7 with a urine bottle and a funnel for aim’s sake, he’s collected every drop and stored it in the fridge (and friend’s fridges when he ran out of space) for the past 200 days.

Cassils (previously known as Heather Cassils) is a well-known transgender artist, and former body builder and personal trainer from Canada. In the past, he has choreographed music videos for LCD Soundsystem, and even designed an album cover for Black Sabbath’s single “God is Dead?”

Monumental is on at the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery until October 28.