Cloaca Distills the Essense of Modern Art

From the interview at Lacanian Ink 19:

WD: You would have to look up the exact number, but for some 40 billion years human beings have been eating and shitting. And what do most people do except reproduce, eat and shit

JA: Yeah, that is true. They do a lot of shit.

WD: Yeah. But you also have to imagine that your shit is fine to publish. That my shit is fine because I also produce art. But most people are not here with a drive to do something. They don't want to do anything.

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JA: All this human time involved, and people thinking about shit... It's only shit. But there is a product, even though it's a leftover that you're going to throw away

WD: The product is bottled in silicon and sold as posthuman cyber-shit < as a "cybermanzoni."

JA: Somebody buys it?

WD: Oh yeah. We sold all the shit. The shit is famous because Cloaca is famous. And Cloaca is famous because all of the TV people, all the journalists, are all there pushing one another to have the place near the honors, with the anus near the camera. And what are they filming? The same shit as every individual human being flushed away in their own house. If you bring the shit to the university and have them test to see if this is a human shit, they will say yes madame hum, uh, yes sir! This is biochemically exact shit

JA: And so, people take a part with this shit, and if it stays there, offer it to them to buy it. And they take it home and they put it there.

WD: Yes sir! As an addition, as an art-piece. I've been working on it mentally for eight years, and I've been working on it technically for two years.

JA: For shit it's a lot of money... you know.

WD: There's an artist that used to sell his shit...

JA: Manzoni!

WD: Manzoni is about the nineteenth century idea of the signature and the handwriting of the artist. Also about the nineteenth century personal touch. His own hands, he's done it with his own hands. Yeah? But, this is a machine who does it.