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  • Nearby, a gigantic machine called Cloaca, by Belgian sculptor Wim Delvoye, digests food and produces waste -- an evocation of the baroque concept of man as machine.

    Reinventing Baroque 2007

  • Delvoye, seen above at the gates of the farm, first came to international prominence with a bizarre machine called a Cloaca that can manufacture feces.

    Weird Asia News Bill Lehane 2009

  • Now go to the screen called Cloaca Nº3, there activate a 1st switch of the area panel.

    unknown title 2009

  • What you need to do now is to go to the screen called Cloaca Nº4 where you'll find another 1st switch, activate and go back to the central control area, deactivate the 11th switch and active the 3rd switch, now save and proceed south to face this esper.

    unknown title 2009

  • Wim Delvoye, the artist Warren Ellis describes as "the Walt Disney of poop," is about to launch a superpowered version 2.0 of "Cloaca," a crap-themed art installation that grossed and wowed patrons of the New Museum in 2002.

    Boing Boing: November 16, 2003 - November 22, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Some of us would have preferred to leave a more dignified memorial of ourselves, forgetting, perhaps, that it is a Cloaca which is the most impressive witness to the civilised resources of an ancient king.

    Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth John Huntley Skrine 1885

  • Delvoye has dubbed his work "Cloaca", after the excretory orifice of birds, reptiles and amphibians.

    technabob 2009

  • Bird Poop is White on the outside & Black on the inside because they only have one hole, the Cloaca, & very effective kidneys: the White is from crystals of the Salts of Uric Acid in their Urine, and the Black is from the Feces.

    Science Question from a Toddler: Why is poop brown? Boing Boing 2009

  • What if, faced with the daunting task of keeping a sprawling population clean and healthy, the engineers of Rome had chosen “whatever” over the Cloaca Maxima?

    In Defense of Passion | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • If you think this is a waste of time, let me just tell you that I asked the bored Goddess Cloaca to guard a pretty little dry run stream in Allegany County, Maryland.

    Pagan Values Month Anne Johnson 2009

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