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Wim Delvoye – The Guy Who Made the Cloaca at MONA - Art & Entertainment im Delvoye’s cloaca machine has been quite a talking point since MONA opened almost a year ago in January 2011. The machine – colloquially labelled as ‘the shit machine’ – was built by the artist to mimic the actions of the human digestive system, eating full meals several times a day and producing faeces at the other end. Despite being surveyed as the ‘most hated’ piece of art in the gallery, MONA’s iPod tracking devices have since revealed that it is also the piece people spend the most time with. “The cloaca is a very cosmopolitan piece,” says Delvoye of the response he got when it took it to China in 2005 for an exhibition. It is this notion that seems to incite curiosity in gallery patrons – this idea that everyone shits and that it’s not something you have to do it well or poorly. Tattoo Tim, as he is known, is a real-life, walking artwork. “Tim is a story about art and death,” says Delvoye. Wim Delvoye shows MONA in Hobart until April 9 2012. mona.net.au

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