food porn: the food that turns you on
DESCRIPTION
This humorous presentation took place in L'Antic Teatre (Barcelona) in September 2011 during a junk food artistic presentation.TRANSCRIPT
FOOD PORN:Food that turns
you on
Set menu
STARTERWhat food porn is
NOT
It is not about beating hunger (hambre)…
… or eating corn cakes on your knickers…
… or liking (gustas-gústate-gusto) oneself to a paroxysm.
And we are not talking Casanova’s pleasures….
…or the family spirit in Eat, drink, man, woman…
… or Julia Roberts’ transforming diet.
Neither about the passion in Last Tango…
(right-click to watch clip)
… without getting into this…
…or well, this…
The opposite of Food for Thought…
… Food for Fuck?
We are talking Food Porn…
“Click. Drool. Repeat”
30,000+ members groups…
… vindicating what they eat.
Exhibition ‘Del bodegón al food porn’ (right-click to see
website)
Nigella Lawson, queen of food porn? (right-click to watch clip)
Traditional food porn
Boys…
From when we were only European…
… or Western…
… with more or less realism.
… and girls…
First courseGlobal food porn
A world of kebabs...
…pizzas…
…hamburguers…
… and of course…
… doughnuts.
The McWrap case: another turn of the screw…
French/Italian/German advertisement (right-click to
watch clip)
… and related posters (observe the orientation of the mouth and the
pieces of chicken in each poster)…
… which end up seducing everybody.
Main courseEat… me
Padma Lakshmi: model
Padma Lakshmi: presenter
Padma Lakshmi: writer
Padma Lakshmi: wife of…
… and meat ambassador (right-click to watch clip).
Dessert
Her own sweet way…
Adult pleasure? (right-click to watch video, or why these girls
needed a tranquilizer…)
Praise for the chocophallus… Before (1980s poster)…
… and now (right-click to see web page, or chocophallus turned into
customized dildos)
Lost innocence (this man was the Kinder Bueno kid for
twenty years)…
… and sprawled (Kinder Bueno poster in Eastern Europe
countries)
Kinder Bueno Poland
Between the insect and the little pill…
M & Ms U.S. (right-click to see web page, or why M & Ms look like
design drugs)
Kinder Bueno Poland: what oozes?
Interview with te vampire, or the drip of blood…
True Blood
Fright Night/ Noche de miedo (double entendre in the Spanish poster: “This
neighbour is a wolf in sheep’s clothing/ killing them (the women)… softly)
To hedge one’s bets…? (half-open mouth, but unconfessed vice)
… or all-you-can-eat?
