[spectre] Ordure finds its rightful place | Museum of Ordure

[Guy McMusker]

Given the daily overproduction of user generated content and the continuous
political solicitation to which we are subjected, it’s ever more difficult
to make sense of the sheer number of objects circulating on the internet.
Finally some order is restored.
Les Liens Invisibles is very proud to announce its contribution to the
Museum of Ordure with a new website that invites contributions in all
aspects of ordure.
Ordure is defined as “dirt: dung: excrement: anything unclean (fig).– adj.
ordurous. (Fr.,–O. ord, foul–L. horridus, rough.)” There are categories of
ordure which are common, shit for example.
The subject proliferates: What are the parameters of ordure? And what is
virtual ordure?

BACKGROUND TO THE MUSEUM
The Museum of Ordure explores the cultural value of ordure through its
projects and ongoing public collections. It takes inspiration from Dominique
Laporte’s “History of Shit” (first published in French in 1978), to verify
that modern power is founded on conditions for the management of human
waste. Laporte insists that in parallel to the cleansing of the streets of
Paris from shit, the French language was similarly cleansed of Latin words
to establish official French without “foreign leanings” (according to an
edict of 1539). Thus language was purged of its “lingering stink” to become
purer and invested with authority. Can the same can be said of the
technologies that are now found on the streets (installed in mobile devices
and such-like), that they are purged of their stink too? This is the Apple
paradigm of software development with specially conceived proprietary “apps”
(for iPhones and iPads) that close off users from the underlying stink of
code. If the health of the (social) body can be detected in the examination
of its shit, then current mismanagement is clear for all to see in the vile
products that proliferate.

THE ONGOING ORDURE COLLECTION
See the growing collection of ordure at http://www.ordure.org/collection/ and
share with us #ordure content on Twitter.
Actually at the moment Twitter has suspended the @museumofordure account,
confirming the status of its tweets as ordure; despite this, ordure
continues to circulate and results for #ordure can be found at
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ordure<http://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23ordure>
.

The Museum is also currently showing some objects from its collection as
part of the Museum Show at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (Sept-Nov 2011). See
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/exhibitions/details/1076

The Museum Website
www.ordure.org

The Permanent Collection
www.ordure.org/collection

Share #ordure on twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ordure<http://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23ordure>

Supported by Arnolfini
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk



-- 
Guy McMusker
Les Liens Invisibles
www.lesliensinvisibles.org
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