Il y a presque 40 ans, Michel Houellebecq intégrait l’Institut National agronomique Paris-Grignon, et en parallèle l’homme se lançait dans le cinéma, en réalisant un premier court métrage en 1978,
CRISTAL DE SOUFFRANCE tout en suivant les cours de l’école Louis Lumière. Vient ensuite, le film DÉSÉQUILIBRES en 1982, et puis plus rien jusqu’à son premier film érotique produit sous le nom de LA RIVIÈRE réalisé en 2001. Dont le synopsis est indirectement à l’image de l’univers de l’écrivain-cinéaste : « Un groupe de jeunes femmes s’adonnent à des plaisirs saphiques dans un décor bucolique. »
Si vous êtes encore au bureau (ou pire avec vos enfants) vous allez devoir vous cacher pour regarder ce film réalisé par l’écrivain le plus connu (et le plus pervers ?) de France. Avec lui, l’érotisme est ici l’illustration de ce qu’il avait écrit dans son roman Plateforme, « il y a la sexualité des gens qui s’aiment et la sexualité des gens qui ne s’aiment pas. » Démonstration ici en images.
![[COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE] UNFIT FOR ILLUSION 2017 STEVE OKLYN](https://www.apar.tv/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/book-pic-75x75.jpg)
![Predictive Journalism [Magazines] @virgilabloh @wmag](https://scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/209584973_2957777841155347_4545370530577311983_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=zzvw2Q977pMAX9z0T0E&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=5e5da42eb1deb5a3c44f004986c86793&oe=616E367F "Predictive Journalism [Magazines] @virgilabloh @wmag")
![The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/196860070_809654653271496_8575323350180795315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=TP1cxbc1pQsAX_pkWMe&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=71a66c4b2a89fd0b56bcadf9811dbe52&oe=616CCE49 "The intersection of persona, product, propaganda, and profit. In 2021 is the brand Supreme any different than the brand GAGOSIAN? No. They are both strategic entities focused on valuations, cultural and capital. Each bestow status on their investors. What I am fascinated by is that they both trade in Dead Data. I find no intellectual difference between a Supreme x John Woo collaboration as GAGOSIAN exhibiting Harmony Korine’s paintings. In each case the two of them are basing the products social influence and exchange value on established [Dead] [Data] information. Both are DOA. Each of the artists and brands chosen for the first exhibition STUPID and the second DROPS are attempting an impossible narrative, to raise dead informational bits. What I find Intellectually horrifying is the scale of the audience and the financial market for this morbid display. The culturally transgressive destroys established values. The works in STUPID and DROPS are intellectual crimes in that they present what has already lost all meaning and value and the propaganda creates an altogether false meta-value. The transgressive preserves creative innocence by exposing the inherent corruption of the status quo.
MARK EVEN x STEVE OKLYN
2021")
![Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan](https://scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/172246940_241775834361086_412793993617799165_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=NsdBJGeJdKAAX9xoVs-&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=23c0b24cd8bea0d8a7dfccbbf2d75736&oe=616DAD75 "Mark Even American artist
Born 2000 Mountain View, CA.
Mark Even was convicted of a cybercrime in 2015. He was sentenced to ten years to be served at a new Federal prison: BALSEC ONE specifically for cyber criminals. It is located in Steele City, Nebraska.
Mark has used his time to develop an algorithmic based [Code art also known as code generated experiments] creative practice. He refers to BALSEC ONE as his Marfa. The BLACK POWER series is his newest work.
Note: Mark has no access to a computer in prison. He writes down the instructions of the work which are given to his lawyer who gives those directions to a member of the MLF [Mark Lombardi Faction] who have assisted him on a number of projects. Mark is currently thinking of releasing the BLACK POWER works as individual NFTs.
STEVE OKLYN
443 Institute
Thimphu, Bhutan")
