Genderpoo: creator Coco Riot attacks binary systems that divide individuals in two categories: normal/others
Genderpoo is an ongoing project that has been exhibited in festivals, high schools, universities classrooms, galleries and contemporary art museums in Europe and North America. Using bathroom signs as forms, this project aims to question the public, asking who and how we belong to society standards, and to pay a homage to everyone and each of these identities, communities and people who fight for social justice and anti-oppression values. As long as there will be organizers and social fighters, the project will be growing, happy not to be ever done.
Genderpoo started as a project that wanted to
question the social division of man/woman, using
restrooms as metaphors of the social western binary
system of gender, and it has evolved into a more
ambitious project growing under anti-oppression
values. This project was born out of Coco’s personal
experience in public washrooms, and it grows and
evolves through discussions with different friends
and people living different realities. For now, Coco
has created more than 80 different bathroom signs
and animation films. They are very simple signs that
do not aim to represent the whole complexities of
peoples struggles. This is a never ending project, as
our understanding of oppressions and privileges is a
never-ending process. Communities and experiences
in Genderpoo are not represented as victims; this an
homage to their/our struggle and fight.
Genderpoo has been shown in contemporary art museums, queer events, school washrooms, new york art galleries, outdoors film screenings, friends houses and even more: Centre d’Art Contemporain Parraga (Murcia, Espagne), Gabarron Foundation (New York, USA), Festival Artivistic (Montréal, Canada), Ladyfest Köln (Cologne, Allemagne), Salon du Livre Anarchiste (Montréal, Canada), Entzaubert Festival (Berlin, Allemagne), Göteborg Feminist Film Festival (Göteborg, Suède), Festival itinérant gENERAtECH (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Galizia, Espagne).
Coco Riot has found Genderpoo
sign sin washrooms and squat
houses in Belgium, art centers
in Halifax, and unknown people
in Barcelona.