Contemporary Museum exhibition explores human energy

511 pounds. That’s how much food and drink Hugh Pocock consumed over 63 days. In a word: Whoa!

For the Contemporary Museum exhibition My Food My Poop

, Pocock studied how much energy is required to fuel his daily activities, and explored man’s relationship to natural resources. During the experiment, the artist produced 253 pounds of energy from food.

No poop jokes here: The Contemporary illustrates Pocock’s findings with wood blocks representing different amounts of food intake, waste, and energy produced, and his diary entries written during the experiment.

Read Meredith Cohn’s article about My Food My Poop in the Baltimore Sun.