Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Another shitty conceptual art piece.
Yesterday was the presentation of the prize Winners in the brand new "Hybrid Art" category of Ars Electronica. A superbly deadpan Wim Delvoye presented Cloaca (the name comes from the Latin word for sewer), a body of works that duplicate human digestion. The machine is fed and after a long process --involving wires, tubes but also acids, bacteria and enzyme liquids-- produces feces. Since he started working on the project in 2000, Delvoye developed several models of Cloaca machines. The one on show is a domestic one, a Cloaca you could have at home.
Then it gets weird.
Then it gets weird.
No, um, shit:
The third machine had a more hard-rock aspect and was built using washing machines. Its particularity is that it has IT connection. So for the birthday of the curator, Delvoye sent an SMS to and instructed the machine to produce diarrhea.Posted by: lemuel pitkin at September 11, 2007 11:03 AM
"Although it looks impressive, the machine is far from perfect, 'even people who never went to school make faeces better than my machines.'"
Heh.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at September 11, 2007 11:24 AM"he vacuum-packed and sold the faeces on the internet. he went even further by setting up a company whose capital is 100 kg of faeces. 100 bonds could be exchanged in three years time for vacuum-packed artificial shit."
What a shitty investment!
Posted by: Joel at September 11, 2007 05:17 PM