Wim Delvoye : Cloaca - New and Improved
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Named for the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved Cloaca is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day as well as a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy, hi-lo culture, the aesthetics of the ugly and disgusting, man as machine and vice-versa. Many of these same concerns are processed in Delvoye's other work, including a life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, a wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue, and a herd of pigs tattooed by Antwerp's finest needlemen. Feces and other anal subjects are parsed in accompanying essays by luminary philosophers, artists, and critics.
