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    Reportagem sobre o trabalho "Cloaca", de Wim Delvoye

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    The Excremental Nature of Being

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    Reportagem sobre o trabalho "Cloaca", de Wim Delvoye

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    OPINION ART & SCIENCE ‘nip98artst Natalie Jeremfenocloneds tralnut tee toootimestoobere how sty eves determines destiny. Ate exhbtng {he plants San Franca ert Buena {Centerforthe arts, she raised her unt ey ‘weremature enough grow outdoors and ‘hen transfered oosidewskplos aldn't ‘uke ongfornurtareto overeat nate, ‘dor the testo lok es and elke espe tht desical DNA ‘eremientos OneTreerRas been deemed dlassceramplect chart anemergingiic igeetypinedbytheapicaloncf scenic besrenbylookngatthescrar gene’ ‘any alures some ofthe more epresous ‘amples amy view ae frm ar Kc, ten considered the preeminent ‘scar andamong the fewtohive thelr ‘rod enrned in museum olectons ‘One otis mos famous works Genet. encoder line ronthe bless tsyhetic {eve inalving microorganism andallows rope to mutatethebacterambysehing ‘Snamulrviolet ight Original teenie ‘eadLetmanhave dominion over he fit theses ad overthe fw of tear andover ‘rey ling thing hat moves upon the cath” Samson tht seen Aistoreby the UV ataton. "Theat to ‘ange the sentences ssymbol geste” acargusoo his website Timeans ti ‘we donotaceptismeaning nthe form we Inert ssrevered latex] and hat ew meanings emergess we sektochangele™ Beyond being pedantic this symbols ising tom te peel, Kase up ‘merely confirms the biealphrae erally {ving people dominion over the acer by Fein them gables" wordy DNA. icrepesensanexteme fecha, Inftoted with the sextet tothederiment fais eubtance Another ‘exzeretsascommonplaceand equally Infect: wort that driven ty pals. The excremental nature of being Collaborations between art and science are todays metaphysics, The good ones help us understand science at a deeper level, argues artist and criticJonathon Keats ‘The group cca rt Ensemble CA for Instance has staged actions to pros against the prendof genetically meied cope ty setingupporbielabeatore where people ‘antag inapparenty natural rains and ‘egetbles or texting By showing hat ‘any ofthese foods wereconamnated, CAE Iasffectiey demonstrated that crossed now ne politcal ound and thatthe use of ene mode organisms by anyone [Copyright Agency Lint (CAL) itimatey ees everyone. cABistbe [ude forenistingthe puto publics {efaet that genetcenpnee ig an Inberety global buts sg rgument s muddled yFramingthis ‘centieandpoieal activity sar. ‘ed ciety the wetin Foodin somethingveryeitferentout Take amomenttocigest Coacaby im Dehoye grew from genetically programmed plantlets {nto marvelously unpredictable profusions of branch andleal,schart applies the rational apparatusof scence to reacquaint us withthe overwhelming strangeness of nature. Sciart should complement scienceas asortof contemporary metaphysics, ‘This metaphysical work canbe achieved sing all manner of media, and need not have Any formal lationship to traditional modes ofartistic expression such as pantingand sculpture, Indeed, other approaches may ‘bemore opportune. the s8th century, for ‘instance, metaphysical conundrums were ‘mechanical automata that provoked {questions about what it meant tobe alive. One ‘example was amechanical duck that through set of hidden compartments, produced the Itusion of digesting com, ‘Several yearsagoincollaboration with scientists atthe Universit of Antwerp in ‘Belgium, the artist Wim Delvoye succeeded {nrepliating the digestive proces for rea, achieving the work ofthe human stomach and intestines with roomful of computer- controled vas. Probably the most provocative workof scart to date, Cloaca (pictured) has ‘been exhibited bya variety ofnstitutionsand

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