Consumption, aesthetic, technique and religion in Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca

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https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v16i47.2008

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consumo, analidade, técnica, arte contemporânea, Wim Delvoye

Abstract

Cloaca (2000-2010), by Wim Delvoye, consists of a set of machines developed in order to produce “real industrialized shit” in Museums and Art Galleries. After a brief description of the series, we unfold our analysis on three axes: the first one is based on the psychoanalytical articulation between shit and money; the second one on the differentiation genetically formulated by Gilbert Simondon (1989) between aesthetics, technics and religion; the third one on the concept of machine, formulated by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1972). Finally, we compare Cloaca and Anal Kisses (2011), a project by the same artist, in an attempt to identify some cultural vectors that affected the uneven reception of both projects.

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Author Biography

Icaro Ferraz Vidal Junior, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

PhD in History, Art History and Archeology at Université de Perpignan Via Domitia and Universitá degli studi di Bergamo and in Communication and Culture at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He performed a post-doctoral internship at the Post-graduate Program in Communication and Languages at Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná.

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Published

2019-12-10

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Ferraz Vidal Junior, I. (2019). Consumption, aesthetic, technique and religion in Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca. Comunicação Mídia E Consumo, 16(47), 500–529. https://doi.org/10.18568/cmc.v16i47.2008

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Vol. 16 No. 47 (2019): SETEMBRO/DEZEMBRO

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