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art installation,bunch of crap,cloaca,museum,shit,seriousness,eurotrash,belgian Arty-Farty Shit

Arty-Farty Shit

posted by mlx 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 2331 views
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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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is this real? or is this a spoof?


written by kingmob  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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pretty sure this is for real


written by michie  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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"a series of tubes . . ."


written by dotdude  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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ah conceptual art... how I loathe thee.


written by raven  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Not to "dump" on your description, but this originated in Antwerp, not NYC and has been installed in many museums over the years.


written by lisacat  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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you 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.)


written by MINK  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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It's real: http://www.cloaca.be/machines.htm


written by ant  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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It's a program called "euro trash" - funny as fuck.


written by stewilliamson  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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awesome!


written by dag  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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One of the things that art does for me is to make me think about how I fit into the world. This works.


written by sbchapm  | 2 years 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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*dead


written by MarineGunrock  | 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by MarineGunrock.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Awarding calvados with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'art installation, bunch of crap, cloaca' to 'art installation, bunch of crap, cloaca, a machine that takes crunches' - edited by calvados


written by siftbot  | 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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*cooking *engineering *science *wtf


written by calvados  | 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Adding video to channels (Cooking, Engineering, Science, Wtf) - requested by calvados.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 2 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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*promote!


written by laura  | 1 year ago | CH
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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, April 21st, 2007 2:31pm PDT - promote requested by laura.


written by siftbot  | 1 year ago | CH
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Tags for this video have been changed from 'art installation, bunch of crap, cloaca, a machine that takes crunches' to 'art installation, bunch of crap, cloaca, museum, shit, seriousness, eurotrash, belgian' - edited by Eklek


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