The "Cloaca" exhibit at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC 2002 used the guise of intellectual thought to get people to spend time looking at crap.
Cloaca is a giant machine that makes shit. At one end of the machine, they pour 2.6 gallons of water and a meal from a fancy SoHo restaurant. 27 hours and 33 feet later, a nozzle squirts out a well-formed piece of crap.
Cloaca is a computerized mechanical system designed to mimic the human digestive process. The machine, which eats better than the majority of us, chews the food using a meat grinder and a garbage disposal, then passes it through six reactor chambers that use various chemicals to do the job of a digestive system.
At 2:30 PM every day a crowd gathered and the machine dutifully dropped a shit onto a conveyor belt. The crowd went wild.
You could have bought your own vacuum-packed and sealed work of Cloaca "art" but they had a run on it and have sold out.
www.cloaca.be
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kingmobsays...is this real? or is this a spoof?
michiepretty sure this is for real
dotdude"a series of tubes . . ."
ravenah conceptual art... how I loathe thee.
lisacatNot to "dump" on your description, but this originated in Antwerp, not NYC and has been installed in many museums over the years.
MINKyou might think it's "not art" but a robot that eats and shits is a pretty amazing concept if you ask me. in an age when we are all supposed to act like machines and shit perfect turds at regular intervals, this exhibit is MOST DEFINITELY ART!
Maybe you are getting confused between art and wall decoration.
(now, conceptual music... that really is shit.)
antIt's real: http://www.cloaca.be/machines.htm
stewilliamsonIt's a program called "euro trash" - funny as fuck.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)
awesome!
sbchapmOne of the things that art does for me is to make me think about how I fit into the world. This works.
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probie$5 says he's a corprophile. $100 says he has home version inside a mannequin.
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