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Pancreas / Thomas Feuerstein (AT)

The processual sculpture PANCREAS transforms books into sugar (glucose) that feeds human brain cells. The books’ paper is shredded, soaked in water, and pressed into an artificial intestine (fermenter), in which bacteria break the cellulose down into glucose.

 

credit: Thomas Feuerstein

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Uploaded on July 30, 2013
Taken on February 16, 2013