
English: 
The revolution started in 1917.
Not this one, this one.
It was in fact not a work of Marcel Duchamp’s,
it was never on show and didn’t cause this great commotion in 1917.
It was the work of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

English: 
and practically nobody noticed it until the 50s decade.
The original urinal was lost and the 17 that are currently in existence are reproductions from 1964.
Only Duchamp himself knew why he assumed authorship of it.
In 1917 the aesthetic appeal of the toilet was already defined:
in contrast to an attractive adorned home,
the toilet introduced the rounded and waterproof surfaces worthy of a laboratory.
In addition, it was perceived as an intimate place - even sacred -
as up until this point urinals were shared, just as the few mirrors, baths and wash houses were.

English: 
The urinal exhibited in New York, said Duchamp, was by the American company J L Mott. That wasn’t true either.
The toilet was invented in Victoria’s reign in England, where it was prized but hidden from view.
No one ever saw a toilet in the many impressionist paintings that violated the privacy of the bourgeoisie
or prostitutes and which were signed by the likes of Bonnard, Degas or Valloton.

English: 
It was photography and all its cheekiness that would break that taboo.
This instant photo was taken by J H Lartigue on his honeymoon in 1920,
although it would not be shown publically until 1963.
People were in shock.
Not for this, for this.
Phycho was the first movie to feature a toilet.
It was an element that made Hitchcock’s dirty character even dirtier.

English: 
Ever since then urinals and toilets have been the source of fetishes of transgression and disdain in film.
They have been so in art too, the only media capable of making gold out of shit.
Miquel Barceló assured everyone that Rembrandt painted this gold helmet with shit.
And this shit was signed by Barceló.
In 1961 Piero Manzoni filled 90 cans with his own shit.
Today each one is worth $30,000, although half of them exploded.

Spanish: 
Quiero agradecerles el que hayan venido.
Pudieron optar a muchas conferencias y nos eligieron a WTO por una hora...
Son tres veces más nutritivas que la hamburguesa original.

English: 
And in 2007, the artist  Wim Delvoye built a shit factory .
You shove all sorts of food down one end and there follows a complex sequence
of events to do with enzymes that turn it into shit. Bottled to be sold.
The Yes Men, those wild jokers, announced to students and McDonalds executives
that they knew how to make hamburgers from shit...
for the Indian market, they said.

Spanish: 
Tenemos un vídeo de presentación, pero el programa aún no está listo del todo…
Como pueden ver, aquí tenemos a un consumidor del primer mundo
entrando en un McDonald’s y tomándose una hamburguesa.
Después viene algo con lo que ya están familiarizados, no hace falta detallar más…
Está renderizado así porque hay estudios que dicen que los consumidores responden mejor
a estas animaciones 3D, particularmente en países en desarrollo.
Como pueden ver, un sistema de tuberías lo lleva de un lugar a otro…
No es tan raro, lo hacemos con el petróleo.
El producto emerge en otro McDonald’s.

Spanish: 
La parte inacabada del vídeo es la del filtrado, ya lo haremos, con excelentes gráficos…
¿Ha visto alguna vez gente hambrienta?
Sí, en fotos.

English: 
It was a joke.
However, these scientists are talking seriously: they produce hamburgers from shit.
And NASA has shown interest in the invention.
I don’t want to be an astronaut any more.
These pictures are painted with shit.
Not this sculpture.
Apparently, the shittiest toilet in history was this one at the famous CBGB

English: 
New York punk music club, whose crapper even the Ramones didn’t dare to visit.
The vile place is a legend.
In 2013, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY reproduced it in their exhibition dedicated to punk.
When it come to rock stories, the stars and toilets have always got on.
Hendrix died on the toilet, and so did Lenny Bruce, Elvis Presley, Lupe Velez and Jim Morrison.

English: 
Warhol did a portrait of Eddie Sedwick dying like Lupe…just before she died in a similar way .
Toilets are full of pop imagery.
If Frank Zappa and Kate Moss were photographed in them, why don’t others go and do it for VOGUE?
The toilet has become one of the most hip places to be photographed in.
Even Kim Kardashian showed us her solid gold toilet.
Kim inspired the artist Maurizio Cattelan, who replaced a toilet for a gold one at the Guggenheim restroom in NY.

English: 
SOLID GOLD.
This guy says he hasn’t dared to pee in it.
A century after Fountain was signed by R Mutt,
bad taste isn’t placing a urinary in an art gallery,
it’s an elegant toilet in a real bathroom.
That’s if there’s any difference.
