Cleaning, the newest publication by Austrian art duo Honey & Bunny, takes a closer look at everyday life in Western societies. Culture takes place every day: in every household, with every bite, with every piece of clothing; it is negotiated through the products we choose and how we use them. The book sets out to highlight cleaning as a cultural technique through which culture is lived and nature is vanquished, through which hierarchies are created, social rankings manifested, and traditions implemented. Addressing dirt and cleanliness, cleaning agents, equipment, and machines, (clean) surfaces and polluted environments, it interrogates the unwritten cultural rules around cleanliness and order, asking what they reveal about our beliefs and value systems. In 2020, the original German-language edition of this book was published under the title "Putzen. Eine Kulturtechnik". It triggered tremendous media coverage in German-speaking countries.

SONJA STUMMERER AND MARTIN HABLESREITER studied architecture in Vienna, London, and Barcelona. After graduation they worked in Tokyo, before founding the transdisciplinary studio honey & bunny in Vienna. Their work is based on social and ecological sustainability. Honey & bunny consider themselves as inbetweeners. They do publications, installations, exhibitions, performances and design.

The duo have presented several exhibitions and publications in London such as a thier exhibition sustainable | FOOD | art as well as performances at the V&A including eat | VALUE | design
They present their latest book Cleaning as part of the Touch Nature exhibition programme.