👉The Conversation article at MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
Cloaca is a large installation that turns food into feces, allowing artist Wim Delvoye to explore the digestive process. In his large mechanism, food begins at a long, transparent bowl (mouth), travels through a number of machine-like assembly stations, and ends in hard matter which is separated from liquid through a cylinder. Delvoye collects and sells the realistically smelling output.
TIL I’m an art installation.
I’m more of a fart installation.
Daddy I’m a art!
But I thought I was the only one. So this is what it feels like when doves cry.
That’s right! ;)
Delvoye collects and sells the realistically smelling output.
Scat fetishists:
I saw a couple of Delvoye’s Cloacas in a museum years ago (he has built several models, the first using a washing machine as “stomach”, if I recall correctly).
I recall reading that the purpose of the work was to show how one can put a lot of effort into something (he really worked on making it as close as possible to physiological human digestion) but in the end the result can be shit.
shitpost
Literally
To think that it takes several thousands of dollars of equipment, for humans to imitate the mere residues of what any animal can do on the regular!
shitty art
We did it, guys! We outsourced shitting!
I made the conveyor belts used in one of his cloacas. I only found out a year after I made them because I ran into them in a museum.
“Artist”
Artist.
Artist!
Why the quotation marks?
