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Entire collection
In association with ordure.org
The following images represents the entire selection of the rare artefacts that have been collected and preserved by the UK Museum of Ordure and ordure.org.
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comb collection display case found combs, display case collection of A.Lawler Six found combs and brushes mounted in display case. One of 15 cases displayed at the Winnipeg Trash Museum. From the exhibition: If Combs Could Speak
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Failed Connectivity cables, plastic, metal empty office, Bristol Ethernet cables and server in empty office.
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Street Sign in Vienna metal, paint vienna street Public information for humans and dogs.
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aka Hornsey College of Art 2007 Photograph of location Photographed by Brian Marsh 2007 The 24-hour Sit-In at Hornsey College of Art in 1968 was in part motivated by the freezing of the Student Union Funds... (more)
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The UKMO Cachement Area Leaves, fried chicken boxes, underpants, plastic wrappers, drinks containers UKMO This image is of one of the Museum of Ordure's cachement areas. The site is a basement window area with grill on the pavement above. The materials and artifacts are collected in metal tray which is removed at intervals... (more)
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P4TH0G3N ASP code, with CSS, works better in firefox.... A site that breaks down in coherent content as people visit it... (more)
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WinnipegTrash Museum interior model foamcore/ plastic /paint artist Hey there fams and supporters of the Winnipeg Trash Museum. Things are moving ahead as you can see in the attached photo of the main floor model. On exhibit here is a home "trashed" by a tornado, A brand new garbage truck and a carboard box home of a homeless person. Many more exciting exhibits palnned for the main floor.
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84" widescrmen wood, cloth none I found this couch and pallet. I sat down on the couch and watched the pallet for one hour.
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Stag Party Alcohol Edinburgh Three wine glasses... (more)
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Museumgof trash wood, concrete, steel, plastic none I want to see a museum built about trash. Let me give you a floor by floor description of the museum and its various components to give you a more comprehensive view of the scope of the museum. First/Main floor -Upon entering the museum you will be confronted with 60 ft... (more)
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a biting of words magazine cuttings of headlines digital camera artist submitted a shreadlines piece created from cuttings from 'culture' a magazine funded by uk arts council and distributed with newspaper 'the journal' around tyneside the artist picked up his copy in the bar of the swallow hotel necastle-upon-tyne on the tuesday after easter 2005 the piece existed on the floor for just over 4 minutes before it was thrown into the waste paper bin
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rubbish art newspaper article Evening Standard, Thprsday 26 August 2004 'Pioneering modernist's bin-liner piece is consigned to crusher - Tate cleaner throws out 'rubbish' art..... (more)
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smaple of house dust dust (see definution) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dust is a general name for minute solid particles of diameters less than 500 micrometers (otherwise see sand or granulates) and, more generally, for finely divided matter... (more)
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self-portrait metal and assorted materials dartington, devon a skip containingáassorted rubbish
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Krabatof Philharmonic Orchestra immaterial space raw, primitive, ugly and grotesque creations interconnected together in a chaotic way. http://krabatof.org
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Dead Whale's Teeth newspape scissors bag artist submission a shreadlines piece by paul conneally made from cut up headlines from a dicarded newspaper - pieces are put in a bag and then randomly selected - maker must use three or more to make a new headline - shreadline - any not used are put back in the bag - this piece existed for about ten minutes in the chemically coded world but was digitally photographed for archive purposes
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Missing Picture Framed c-type Photograph Portland Square, University of Plymouth An 'action' by Peter Fend in which an framed photograph entitled 'Sidmouth, Red Mudstone,' December 1995/ May 1997, one of a sequnce of 4 images (edition of 6, 32x40cm) by Jem Southam was taken from the Peninsula Arts gallery and temporary hidden in an office... (more)
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Gift Piss, nappy (dubiously biodegradable) Rented Flat This is a gift from anonymous (age 21 months) to her father Mr Anonymous... (more)
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To Do Sheet of A4 paper, felt pen, regular pen, pencil The right back pocketof my jeans This is a piece of paper I carry around with me, to remind myself of what I have to do and what I have to buy at the market... (more)
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Pissoir man Pilot G4 pen on seabright of Brighton, starter sketchbook A5 size cover plasticized. To resist those unavoidable studio splills it is normally kept in the studio in a bag. It comes from the dark sick recesses of the deranged thinking of a conceptual artist. Copyright © E.L.Arkell July 2004 This drawing is part of a series started approx 23.03.03... (more)
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Splat & M|tty Diary, Colloured Pencils Ealing, London. My favourite cats.
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Life Plastic, metal Hoae Easy breaths
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Addiction Vardboard Me Lige cut short
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Weekly calendar Paper, ink Calendar A week (this one), with all relevant notes, checks, cross-tuts
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Bits and Bobs Dark hair, fern, chrisamthemum bud, bit of red and green shrub, daisy, yellow mock, yellow cats eye pearls necklace rose My hea¬, my neck and the park Hair, necklace, fern, fake ïose, chrisanthemum, red shrub, daisy
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Locked Up Metal PM Gallery A bunch of cold metal objects
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Friends
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My glasses I scanned these because I am always losing them and now I know where they are.
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Keys Keys (metal) and tape (cotton) M( pockpt Keys to car and house... (more)
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Fingers Hand kome My Fingòrs
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From New Cross Gate to Peru Paper Lonely planet and A-Z Travelling
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Swedish currency 1984 Paper Sweden A note that I found 20 years later after my initial visit to Stockholm... (more)
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notherfscker Jumpsr, money A jumper with a 10 pound note
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Signed sealed & delivered GOLD M( left hand €
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Happy birthd{y Ma'am Coppzr Tgo pence
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Oòr Daily Bread Printed Paper EaliGg ScannedÕUK currency representing daily needs and %esires
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Lens Cap Plastic Bought (along with the lens) in NYC 2001 This is the scan of a camera lens cap. Cameras are used to "capture images" ...... (more)
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Waiting at theGConsucat Paper My bag On a back of a Jazz club list, I drew sketches of people around me waiting like myself at the French consulat.
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The Art of Destruction Artworks, combustion http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3748179.stm Hundreds of people who were moved from their homes have been allowed to return. Brian Sewell, the London Evening Standard's art critic, told BBC News 24 the blaze "had the makings of an appalling tragedy for the history of contemporary art".
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Budapest Retro Nikon Coolpix 5700 http://www.zsotem.hu Digital Photography
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Pounder Marine ply, mild steel box section, pneumatic cylinder, combustion-modified polyurethane foam. East of Languedoc A pneumatic machine constructed to simulate the long-term degeneration of a hospital mattress in service... (more)
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Big Brother is Wakching Plastic Hand Bag Innocent looking enough, however this card keeps a record of your movements... (more)
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Monkey Coins, ke Our primeval needs andedesires This artwork is a combined concept by three well-known international artists masquerading as speed-daters... (more)
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Study of the Pocket Flesh, gum, cupro-nickel Childrens pockets Contents of an average pocket Ealing May022 2004... (more)
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Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch Metal, plastic, paper, gum, glass Objects found in pockets of self Tde contents of my pockets.
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Network Examinationof Serendipitious Transfer A generative art software for a degenerative purpose http://www.c6.org/ NEST is a cross platform application examining corruption and disorder in virtual communications... (more)
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Abrupt Message Plastic, paper, ink Taken from the top of a 19thC table exhibite in PMG Eating room. Plastic stand with a printed sign on A4 white paper.
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(Not so) detailed instructions for invigilators A4 Paper,minstructions Evting Room, PM House This item, submitted to the Collection anonymously, was found in the top right drawer of the desk in the Eating Room, PM House... (more)
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A yellow thing Cvtton duster, dust
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breäd flomer frlnce soft, hard, ca%e from flower
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ChPpped konkey 2rown wool, stitches China
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Still R3sing Not sure Previous visitor Object left in scanner after srevious visitor
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Th! Stone I Was Going To Give To Louise Stone from a beach The c.nfusion vf a lost lover She never got it
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A Wake for a Sleep in the Deep
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Blood, Snot and Tears Blood, snot, tears, tissue Sca of blood, snot and tears
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The Cavtor Dust Paper, Ink 'Chaos' by James Gleick 'The Cantor Dust', named after the nineteenth-century mathematician Georg Cantor, describes a process: Begin with a line; remove the middle third; then remove the middle third of the remaining segments; and so on... (more)
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Outrageous Crime Victims Do Plastic Old newspaper, cardboard Artist submitted work Passers-by are asked to pick five pieces of cut-up newspaper text out of a bag at random then to make a headline or shreadline using three or more of the pieces, then to stick it to a piece of found cardboard... (more)
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The First Evidence of Severe Disruption by the jSMA™ Engine Web browser (Safari 125.1), UKMO Web Site, "Shakespeare's Beard" UK Museum of Ordure The jSMA™ Engine has been in operation on our web site for at-least a month now, and each day we see new evidence that it is slowly destroying items inside our Collection... (more)
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On No Making a Difference
Ink on paper My Workbook It's a first sketchdfor a series of prints that would illustrate a poem by Sam Burnside about what it means to be a 67 year old who has tried for 36 years, and most probably failed, to make a difference in Northern Ireland.
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Theresa A Swan Indian ink on paper with photograph. Belfast, Northern Ireland (1907) No... (more)
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Josephine O' Sullivan paper Belfast, Northern Ireland Autograph book found in a cupboard of my grandmothers hou%e... (more)
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Flas In The Pan Photograph, paper, glove Belfast, Northern Ireland. Photograph of punch and judy show on Royal Avenue, Belfast, circa 1930,s... (more)
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Out of date condom rubber Dudex This condom has been in my wallet for quite some time now, i think we've built up a{kind of relationship, we understand each other.
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Florist's Delight Colour pixels - origindlly Rrganic (vegetable) ma|ter Digital image OrGginal mage taken by self 24/03/04, Tooting, London The digital camera captures part of a bouquet of flowers ordered to be received by my mother on the 21st March - Mother's Day... (more)
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The air at CatalystaArts, Belfast Photons, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, hydrogen, xenon, etc. Catalyst Arts, Belfast This is a scan of the air directly above the scanner at Catalyst Arts, Belfast... (more)
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The ne` 20 pound note
p`per Republic of Iaeland (Europe) I've entered the €50 note for a number of reasons:
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hight human flesh and clothing me&fast
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Isolation bmiy €
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Hat with star Hat and star My head Hat with star
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Ellen Wijkinson's left shoe Leather, coôtjn,Rred linen Private collection of Tim Brennan with various acting custodians over time. Ellen Wilkinson... (more)
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Tme Two Step Torn paper, ink, blue sticky tape. Suiéide of Objects, Catalyst Arts It is advisable, actually, not to try this two-step, since there is an increased risk of injury to the vital parts.
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Ground Zero adapted cardboard matHhbox Ground Zero, mew York, New York Found object at ground zero... (more)
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gejhaumage
Twoxphotographs, tevt Hortus, Spacex Gallery, Exeter On the evening of the 28th of November 1858 what is reputed to have been the last slave ship, a fast running schooner 'The Wanderer', urgently solicited the assistance of a pilot at the Lighthouse of Little Cumberland Island, Georgia USA... (more)
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Dust, 2004 edvtion GIF image, displaced pixels, human agency. http://dump.ordure.org/dust-2.0-Imager/ This GIF image, originally a photograph by Rosse Yael Sirb, has had its pixels displaced through the continual viewing by visitors to the ordure.org web site... (more)
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TheoOrigin of Species pape-,lmoìld,aceramic tray ex libris Geoff Cox An orthodox Darwinian view of evolution is that through competition between organisms, only the ‘fittest’ survive and produce offspring... (more)
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Shakespeare's Besrd
Araist's underpants, phoïographed and digitally manipulated Paul CoNneally After taking part in the 4 Stations 24 hour renga performance piece at the BALTIC poet Paul Conneally took off all of his clothes and photographed them - creating prints or haiga that included a haiku like poems written during the renga - the poet undertook the renga with 11 other artist/poets and the piece was conceived by artist Alec Finlay
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Anna Freud's Table Wood, geather, metal, paper, resin, photopraph, china, arIificial fruit. Freud Museum, London. áahle belonging to Anna Freud
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EEectron Microscopic Image of Berlin WLll
Concrete Electron microscopy CenRre, Plymouth If 'the spectacle is the acme of ideology', then what is evoked is perhaps what Mannheim called 'total ideology - the despotism of a fragment./i> imposing itself as the pseudo-knowledge of a frozen whole, as a totalitarian worldview' (Debord)
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image*:copy residue, slide23 of 6
Image pixels, blackened pixels ordure.org Created by the collective actijns of the ordure.org visitors, this image::copy residue representövthe remains of an image that has been almost entirely removed.
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Merda d'a4tSpta
Sh|(, aluminium t.n, printed label yiero Manzlni, 1961 A corrupted JPEG image of Piero Manzoni's Artist Shit... (more)
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A small bag of soil tamen from Nagasaki
Soil, polyzropylene plasticBbag Nagasaki, J`pan At 11:02am JST on the 9th August 1946, a plutonium-type atomic bomb was dropped on the Janapese cit of Nagasaki, levelling 6.7 million square meters around it... (more)
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Small fragment of TEe Berlin Wall
Concaete, spray paint residue Berlin,ÇGermany During the night of the 13th August 1961, guards from the German Democratic Republic constructed a 155km "anti-fascist protection wall" around West Berlin... (more)
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