RICARD BURTON : Monsieur Labro, que pensez-vous de l’élection d’Obama ?
PHILIPPE LABRO : Je ne vois pas de qui vous parlez.
RICARD BURTON : Justement ne serait-il pas temps que vous quittiez notre territoire une bonne fois pour toute et ainsi faire vos dépressions comme vous l’entendez aux Etats-Unis ?
PHILIPPE LABRO : Mon livre sur la dépression est d’intérêt public. Vous devriez le lire Ricard. Une bonne dépression vous lave de toutes les merdes accumulées. Je vous sens acculé Ricard. Ne croyez tout de même pas que parce qu’un noir est président vous allez avoir tous les droits. Vous pourrez conserver celui d’être toujours aussi mauvais.
RICARD BURTON : Vous prétendez guérir de la dépression mais lorsqu’on sait que vous êtes le vice-président de Direct 8, on se dit que vous faites tout pour déprimer les gens. Le physique disgracieux de vos animateurs démoralise plus que la perte d’un organe.
PHILIPPE LABRO : J’ai été mis en place pour ce que je sais faire. Vous savez Ricard, nous avons trop tendance à croire que la vie est heureuse avec des moments de déprime. C’est l’exact inverse. Nous vivons dans une déprime permanente agrémentée d’un peu de bonheur. Quand je pense à cet idiot de Président qui nous parle de réformer l’économie en profondeur.
RICARD BURTON : Quel est donc votre conseil pour vivre une bonne dépression ?
PHILIPPE LABRO : Vous avez le choix, vraiment. Vous pouvez continuer à vivre comme si de rien avec les gens autour de vous. Surtout, ne dites pas que vous dépressif. Ne vous livrez pas. Laissez ce sentiment vous envahir, vous attraper par les trippes et vous les dévorer. Au contraire, plaignez-vous, affichez votre mine cadavérique et vous vous rendrez compte à quel point vos « proches » n’ont rien à faire de vous, ils sont bien trop occupés à régler leur petite vie égoïste et sans intérêt. Vous pourrez ainsi faire le vide autour et à l’intérieur de vous. Alors il ne vous restera plus rien et il sera temps de mourir. Ricard je dois filer présenter un Téléshopping spécial aujourd’hui, nous y vendons un appareil qui permet de se faire soi-même des électrochocs. Je vous en ai fait livrer un chez vous. Au plaisir.
*Interview réalisée avec un Philippe Labro de pacotille.
![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=tcRePr_L2N4AX9OQ0T3&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=1a85fdca505404c0d49c31aa74aea9e2&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=vTxo9sIcXKoAX9hx_qt&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=49f4362bfd5b774cd8bd8725423937c4&oe=616EC889 "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=bad74dc95a374a1a3a389075b9ada30e&oe=616FA7B5 "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")
