👉The Conversation article at MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
Cloaca is a large installation that turns food into feces, allowing artist Wim Delvoye to explore the digestive process. In his large mechanism, food begins at a long, transparent bowl (mouth), travels through a number of machine-like assembly stations, and ends in hard matter which is separated from liquid through a cylinder. Delvoye collects and sells the realistically smelling output.
To think that it takes several thousands of dollars of equipment, for humans to imitate the mere residues of what any animal can do on the regular!