Does anyone know of any artists who have used their own excrement (or that of others) in their work?

Question

This can be in any genre of art or any era.

Answer 1

In Milan, Italy, there is a new exibithion about it.
There is an art work called "La Merda d'Artista" ("Artist's ****", the artist is Manzoni) it is quoted1 milion of euros.

Answer 2

A couple of artists have used animal waster to create Art but I can't remeber any mainstream artist using their own.
An Indian artist called Sheela Gowda created artwork from Cow Dung in the early '90s.
Chris Ofili has made many pieces using Elephant Dung most sensationally Chris's version of the Virgin Mary.

Answer 3

Those people above who thought this was a disgusting question are tiny brained cretins.

I freely admit that I cut and pasted this from Wikipedia.-

* The controversial Piss Christ (1987), by Andres Serrano, which is a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine;
* Self (1991, recast 1996) by Marc Quinn, a frozen cast of the artist's head made entirely of his own blood;
* Piss Flowers, by Helen Chadwick (1991-92), are twelve white-enamelled bronzes cast from cavities made by urinating in snow (though this might not be characertised as the use of bodily fluids in art, just their use in preparation);
* performances by Lennie Lee involving feces, blood, vomit from 1990
* many paintings by Chris Ofili, which make use of elephant dung (from 1992).
* Gilbert and George's The Naked **** Pictures (1995)
* Hermann Nitsch and Das Orgien Mysterien Theatre use urine, feces, blood and more in their ritual performances.
* Franko B from 1990 blood letting performances.

Im sure there was an artist who painted after recieving paint enemas, but i forget his name now.

-Cidermoo-the tent never had excrement in it.

Answer 4

Tracey Emin "My Toilet" basically excrement in a toilet. She apparently exhibited a tent that had excrement in it. Her most famous piece "my bed" features all sorts of human excrement.

Answer 5

Joseph Beuys.

Answer 6

the IRA painted thier walls in the 70s or 80s I do recall

Answer 7

I saw an artist of this ilk on Eurotrash years ago, but funnily enough i don't remember his name. Type eurotrash into your search engine, never know your luck.

Answer 8

Some of The Bloodhoundgang have pissed on each other! One of them said "Maby we'll crap on each other next time! It's the only disgusting thing we haven't done yet on stage!"

Answer 9

I remember there was some geezer on Eurotrash who used his poo as paint. He used to eat special things to get different colours like spinach and beetroot.... Nice!

Answer 10

Chris Ofili has used elephant dung in his workhttp://www.salon.com/ent/feature/1999/02/10feature.html
Marc quinn sculpted his own likeness fom his own frozen blood but has used faeces, and even his son's umbilical cord, in his works and of course there is always Gilbert and George.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fluids_in_art
http://www.artseensoho.com/Art/SONNABEND/g&g97/g&g1.html