Cooking with the Erotic
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Cooking with the Erotic

Ilana Harris-Babou 
2016, 11:37 minutes, color, stereo, 2-channel, HD video

Description

Cooking with the Erotic plays off of Audre Lorde’s seminal speech “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” (1978) as a point of departure for an imaginary cooking show starring Harris-Babou and her mother. Framing visceral, messy, food scenes with studio lighting and HD video, the work asks questions about the relationship between intimacy and consumption.