Cloaca

Cloaca is an installation by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye that digests regular human food and turns it into feces. A simple idea, but it took him years of research together with various scientists, and a range of prototypes to get his shit right.

A short documentary of one of the first versions of Cloaca.

Eight Cloaca machines were brought together at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain in 2008.

The man himself feeding the beast.

A small experiment comparing Cloaca's output with the excrement produced by a human being.