Another Load of Shite
I've just been on Google trying to find the artist who was mounting and framing his own shit (sprayed in clear epoxy) and selling it as Art. No luck. But I ran across this. Which is maybe even weirder. There's no date on it. Maybe you can tell me.
Cloaca, the latest work by the Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye (b. 1965), has just closed out its run at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA) in Antwerp. It was a room-sized installation of six glass containers connected to each other with wires, tubes and pumps. Every day, the machine received a certain amount of food.
Meat, fish, vegetables and pastries passed through a giant blender, were mixed with water, and poured into jars filled with acids and enzyme liquids. There they got the same treatment as the human stomach would supply. Electronic and mechanical units controlled the process, and after almost two days the food came out of a filtering unit as something close to genuine, human shit...............The machine daily delivered turds that were signed and sold for $1000 each..........
Delvoye is fast developing a reputation on the international art circuit as something of a hard case. His work regularly appears on the auction block -- last November, an elaborately carved wood cabinet filled with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue sold for $21,150 at Christie's New York. Visitors to the 2000 Venice Biennale probably noticed his life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck.
And his continuing project, a herd of pigs covered with tattoos done by the best needle-men Antwerp's red-light district has to offer, is currently appearing at venues around the globe. Marcel, a pig adorned with a Harley-Davidson tattoo, has visited several European cities, while Bonnie and Clyde spent last Thanksgiving at the San Francisco Art Institute and Boris and Tatiana went to the Moscow Art Fair. The artist also makes stuffed tattooed pigs (one sold at auction in 1998 for $12,500) and tattooed pig skins ($4,830 in 1999)
Oh yeah Baby! I want one of those turd-machines.
watchmeshit - that's where you'll find it - just follow the smell. Talking of smells - you ever travelled on Metro Line 14 here in Paris? The new driverless one with the window at the front? It literally smells like shit as it goes close to the underground sewer.






Reader Comments (180)
Oh wait ... radar won't update fast enoguh for our particular brand of rapid-fire comedy gold.
Someone want to pull "Jason" down a peg or seven over at RADAR/scoop?
I've slapped MLD and am waiting for it to appear, so my work is done.
What are you, a fucking milkman...
I've been up since 4:45am when I walked the dog....
Worked for me!
At leats you only googled my screenname.
I just googled you too Chesty - Found a photo!! Interesting!
http://www.ratemypoo.com/ratemy/poo