The Zürich Load (2016)The concept for Manifesta 11 (2016), “What People Do For Money”, hosted by the city of Zürich, paired an artist with a particular profession. Bouchet chose to work with the city’s waste water treatment facility. The resulting work, The Zürich Load, was an 80 ton sculpture made of human sludge installed at the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art. Zürich’s 400,000 inhabitants produce on average 80 tons of sludge per day. This collaborative sculpture was a literal display of the citizens’ daily “production.”
