Lecture performance : Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism : Madeleine Andersson

Join us for the lecture performance Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism by artist and current AHC resident Madeleine Andersson, followed by a conversation with Lars Bang Larsen on Wednesday 4 February at 19-21.30!

“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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Lecture performance : Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism : Madeleine Andersson

4 February 2026
19 – 21.30

The programme of the evening:

19:00 Lecture performance Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism by Madeleine Andersson
20:15 Break
20:30 Conversation with Madeleine Andersson and Lars Bang Larsen
21:00 The bar is open

Art Hub Copenhagen
Thoravej 29 2400
København NV

Participation in the event is free, but please sign-up through Billetto here. There are a limited number of seats. Please note that the event will be in English.

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ABOUT MADELEINE ANDERSSON
Madeleine Andersson’s (b. 1993, Sweden) multidisciplinary work across video, sculpture and performance blends together academic theory, scientific instruments, pseudo-scientific excitement, social media and horror films in playful installations. Her research practice proposes alternative historisations and speculative structures to expose and disrupt the psycho-social dimensions of knowledge production. This eclectic collection of things allows her to investigate the intersection of science and pop culture; their self-experimentation, quest of inner truth and struggle with inhibition.

Andersson has previously exhibited at venues including Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2025); Kunsthall Trondheim (2025); Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2025); documenta institute, Kassel (2024); Färgfabriken, Stockholm (2023) and Galerie 35m2, Prague (2023).

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Text by Mandus Ridefelt and Madeleine Andersson.