Wim Delvoye Cloaca - New Improved Author:Georges Bataille, Peter Bexte, Milan Kundera, Domique Laporte, Dieter Roelstraete, Peter Sloterdijk, Gerardo Mosquera, Salvador Dali, Wim Delvoye Named for the ancient sewer in Rome, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye's new and improved "Cloaca" is a room-sized shit-making machine whose bowels process two meals a day as well as a mouthful of complex themes: scatalogy, hi-lo culture, the aesthetics of the ugly and disgusting, man as machine and vice-versa. Many of these same concerns are pr... more »ocessed in Delvoye's other work, including a life-sized carved walnut replica of a cement truck, a wood cabinet stocked with 32 circular saw blades painted with scenes in Delft China blue, and a herd of pigs tatooed by Antwerp's finest needle-men. Feces and other anal subjects are parsed in accompanying essays by such luminaries as Milan Kundera, Gerardo Mosquera, Dan Cameron, Georges Bataille, and Salvador Dali.« less