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(The very first Cloaca!)

SuperForester Serra just sent us an intriguing piece about Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. Over the last decade Mr. Delvoye has built a series of sculptural art machines, each one named Cloaca, that approximate the workings of the human digestive tract.

“Cloaca,” can be fed a normal meal, which it then grinds up and digests using acids and bacteria. It then passes the increasingly digested food through a series of steps that further break it down and at the end, so to speak, Cloaca takes big dumps. Which Wim Delvoye sells vacuum-sealed and encased in lucite.

Here’s a video of Wim and an assistant feeding the one of the latest Cloaca’s.

Cloaca New-and-Improved!

Cloaca Turbo!

Here’s Wim’s fun, Sim City-esque site.

And here’s the Wim Delvoye wiki.

And of course, Cloaca’s website.

Thank you to SuperForester Serra for the heads up!