Mike Bouchet: The Zurich Load

Mike Bouchet is working with the local sewage plant to create a “monumental” work, entitled The Zurich Load (2016), using the human waste created by the citizens of Zurich, which will sit in one of the largest exhibition spaces in the city, the first floor of the Migros Museum.

Weighing 80 tons, the final installation will indeed have a monumental quality to it, but how and why did Bouchet get this idea off the ground?