THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATION
For three months this spring, New York City's New Museum of Contemporary Art displayed Belgian arrtist Wim Delvoye's "Cloaca," a room-sized mechanical rendition of a human intestine, which at announced times would take food input and process it into various components just as the body does, including the final waste product, which was then scooped up by an attendant and flushed. Said a German curator, Delvoye's "strength" "lies in his ability to engineer conflict by combining the fine arts and folk art, and playing seriousness against irony." [New York Times, 1-20-02] - From News of the Weird.
August 6, 2002
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