Michael Bouchet & Paul McCarthy: Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dink Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model (Mousse Publishing, 2016) Renaissance Society Text by Taylor Payton

Text by Taylor Payton

published in Paris in 1951

performance/installation artist Shani Crowe

before a live audience at Navy Pier in Chicago

Michael Bouchet & Paul McCarthy: Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dink Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model (Mousse Publishing, 2016) Renaissance Society Text by Taylor Payton"A few years ago, independently from one another, American artists Mike Bouchet (born 1970) and Paul McCarthy (born 1945) both had made a work that transformed the Guggenheim Museum in New York into a toilet. This coincidence sparked an ongoing conversation about shared interests in the politics of art institutions and their architecture, leading up to a site specific project for Portikus that took up these concerns in a multilayered exhibition