Great art can sprout from anything.

Porcelain Confessions is an experimental performance art project born out of the collaboration between artists and performers Helene Düring Kjær (NO/DK), Sarka Benedova (NO/CZ) and Atul Giri (NO/IN).
The project will manifest as a touring performance, mainly intended for blackboxes, potentially also galleries. Furthermore it is an artistic movement aiming to nourish local art communities and promote cross-artistic collaborations in Europe.

Wishing to reach unconventional audiences and make contemporary live art more accessible, we place our artistic starting point in a highly relatable, yet artistically potent topic and process: Pooping - an everyday natural act that we share with all other humans regardless of class, gender and age. It is simultaneously a biological necessity and a universal human experience covered in exciting cultural taboos - often executed behind locked doors, flushed away and seldomly spoken about.

We invite people to be curiously aware of this basic bodily function and share their creative reflections on their pooping experience in a neat diary. We harvest their scribbles in the form of texts, drawings, poetry, facts, stories or diagrams. These personal, quirky and philosophical reflections serve as fuel for our artistic method, in which we cross artistically digest and create artworks that are later bound together in an exciting performance collage. We encourage people to be curiously aware of their pooping experience, as a reminder that we are natural beings shaped by sociocultural contexts.

We want to inspire thoughts on how byproducts of any process are considered as waste or fertiliser - are the things we grant as useless potentially nourishing? At its core this work touches the themes of mortality, decay, transformation of energy, culture vs. nature and approaches the Jungian shadow side. What it seeks is to create connections through underlying universalities of our highly individualised selves.