The Mystery of Shit: Wim Delvoye

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Shared food conversations: Jason Phu and Nagesh Seethiah
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A good dinner party: Food as a medium for social change
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Eat the problem: MONA's carnivalesque of cuisine
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Fair Share Fare: Recipe for Disaster
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Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is having a retrospective at Hobart's MONA. Stephanie Radok looks at the materials and concepts he uses in a broad context and asks whether his art is critical or spectacle.

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