THREE DROPS (LOVE, SWEET LOVE)
2020
Single channel audio work.
2’54.
Full audio work, documentation.
Created for ‘Shit Show’, installed in public toilets across Melbourne. Curated by Anna Schwann.
In an overused and undercleaned toilet in Fitzroy, to the soothing accompaniment of a jazz piano cover of ‘What the World Needs Now is Love, Sweet Love’, a computerised voice over pleads for a better world.
As Melburnians frantically stockpiled toilet paper at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, Three Drops mimicked the robotised toileting experience provided in public restrooms across the world. Taking the infamous backing track used in Exeloo toilets, it featured a soothing digital voiceover that overstepped its instructive role and begged for toilet users to become more thoughtful members of their community.
Asking what it means to be part of a public, and using humour to face an oncoming catastrophe, Three Drops makes a case for humanity in the most human of locations.