Big eater. (Art).Artist Wim Delvoye has created artwork with an appetite--a roomsize machine named Cloaca 1. a common passage for fecal, urinary, and reproductive discharge in most lower vertebrates. 2. the terminal end of the hindgut before division into rectum, bladder, and genital primordia in mammalian embryos. 3. an opening in the involucrum of a necrosed bone. , from the Latin word for sewer. On exhibit through April in New York City, Cloaca eats lunch and dinner dally. Food enters its glass mouth and is chewed in a garbage disposal and a meat grinder. Moved along by pumps, the food makes its way through six glass jars neatly lined upon two steel carts linked like the cars of a train. The jars are filled with acids, bases, and enzymes. The journey---which lasts 22 hours and covers 33 feet--mimics the human digestive system digestive system, in the animal kingdom, a group of organs functioning in digestion and assimilation of food and elimination of wastes. Virtually all animals have a digestive system. In the vertebrates (phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata) the digestive system is very complex.. So what's the point? Delvoye wanted to create a machine with a useless function: the reduction of food to waste. Bon appetit!
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