The Extracurriculars: Madeleine Andersson

We live in a time when it can be difficult to understand even the most basic phenomena around us. What exactly is that thing, what is its function and why does it exist in the first place? Some toilet enthusiasts, for example, argue that civilisation did not begin with written language, but with the first toilet.

“Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism” tells a speculative story about how our bodies were connected to the sewage system, how our minds were shaped by the modern invention of waste management and how our souls underwent a profound spiritual restructuring as a result of the power regimes that governed our bodies’ excretions.

“Toilet Science and The Rise of Sewer Protestantism” is written by Madeleine Andersson and Mandus Ridefelt.

Madeleine Andersson

In her practice, Madeleine Andersson works with alternative historicizations and speculative structures, to make visible and disrupt the psychosocial dimensions of knowledge production. Her interdisciplinary works in video, sculpture and performance merge academic language, scientific instruments, pseudoscientific enthusiasm, social media and horror movies into playful installations.

Madeleine Andersson has previously exhibited at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm (2025), The documenta Institute in Kassel (2024), O–Overgaden in Copenhagen (2024), Färgfabriken in Stockholm (2023), NSFW in Gothenburg (2023), ArtVilnius22 in Vilnius (2022) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen (2022).