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AUTORITÉ [LE POUVOIR EST PARTOUT] Steve Oklyn X Michel Foucault
CONDE NAST: Jonathan Newhouse, Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, Anna Wintour, Emmanuel Alt, Katie Grand, Stefano Tonchi, and Edward Enninful GUCCI: Francois-Henri Pinault, Salma Hayek, Marco Bizzarri, Alessandro Michele, Jared Leto, Petra Collins, Coco Capitan, Gia Coppola, and Dan Thawley DOVER STREET MARKET: Rei Kawakubo, Adrian Joffe, Gosha Rubchinskiy, James Jebbia, Angela Hill, and David Owen CALVIN KLEIN: Raf Simons, Pieter Mulier, Willy Vanderperre Olivier Rizzo, Peter De Potter, Sterling Ruby, Peter Saville, Sofia Coppola, and Michel Gaubert VETEMENTS/BALENCIAGA: Demna Gvasalia, Guram Gvasalia, Lotta Volkova, Maud Escudie, Clara Deshayes, Loik Gomez, Paul Hameline, Renata Litvinova, Inge Grognard, Walter Pearce, Pierre-Ange Carlotti, and Cedric Charbit DAZED MEDIA: Jefferson Hack, Isabella Burley, Jamie Andrew Reid, Thomas Gorton, Alexander Fury, Robbie Spencer, Susannah Frankel, Emma Hope Allwood, and Ted Stansfield
FUCK à la déification des acteurs qui utilisent le pouvoir comme un instrument de coercition. FUCK aux structures discrètes dans lesquelles ils opèrent et contemplent l’idée que le pouvoir est partout, spécifiquement à l’intérieur de soi. L’autorité du monde de la mode est diffusée et incarnée dans le discours [la publicité], la connaissance [éditoriale] et les régimes d’illusion qui, dans cette guerre d’idées, sont les marques. Le pouvoir du monde de la mode est diffus plutôt que concentré, incarné et adopté plutôt que purement coercitif et repose sur l’utilisation d’agents – de designers, de photographes, de mannequins, de célébrités, d’éditeurs, de journalistes et d’artistes – plutôt que directement déployés par les dirigeants de la marque. Le pouvoir n’est pas entièrement négatif, il génère toujours une réaction sociétale positive. Dans ce cas, comme avec le pouvoir politique: OÙ IL Y A UNE AUTORITÉ, IL Y A UNE RÉSISTANCE.
STEVE OKLYN
November 4, 2017
Thimphu, Bhutan
AUTORIDAD [EL PODER ESTÁ EN TODAS PARTES] Steve Oklyn X Michel Foucault
CONDE NAST: Jonathan Newhouse, Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, Anna Wintour, Emmanuel Alt, Katie Grand, Stefano Tonchi y Edward Enninful GUCCI: Francois-Henri Pinault, Salma Hayek, Marco Bizzarri, Alessandro Michele, Jared Leto, Petra Collins, Coco Capitán, Gia Coppola, y Dan Thawley DOVER STREET MARKET: Rei Kawakubo, Adrian Joffe, Gosha Rubchinskiy, James Jebbia, Angela Hill y David Owen CALVIN KLEIN: Raf Simons, Pieter Mulier, Willy Vanderperre Olivier Rizzo, Peter De Potter, Sterling Ruby, Peter Saville, Sofia Coppola y Michel Gaubert VETEMENTS / BALENCIAGA: Demna Gvasalia, Guram Gvasalia, Lotta Volkova, Maud Escudie, Clara Deshayes, Loik Gómez, Paul Hameline, Renata Litvinova, Inge Grognard, Walter Pearce, Pierre-Ange Carlotti y Cedric Charbit MEDIOS DAZADOS: Jefferson Hack, Isabella Burley, Jamie Andrew Reid, Thomas Gorton, Alexander Fury, Robbie Spencer, Susannah Frankel, Emma Hope Allwood y Ted Stansfield
FUCK la deificación de los actores que usan el poder como un instrumento de coacción. FUCK las estructuras discretas en las que ellos operan y contemplan la idea de que el poder está en todas partes, y específicamente dentro de ti. La autoridad de FASHIONWORLD se difunde y encarna en el discurso [Publicidad], el conocimiento [Editorial] y los regímenes de ilusión que dentro de esta guerra de ideas son las marcas. El poder de FASHIONWORLD es difuso en lugar de concentrado, encarnado y promulgado en lugar de puramente coercitivo y depende del uso de agentes como diseñadores, fotógrafos, modelos, celebridades, editores, periodistas y artistas, en lugar de ser desplegados directamente por el liderazgo corporativo de las marcas. El poder no es del todo negativo, siempre genera una reacción social positiva. En este caso como con el poder político: DONDE HAY AUTORIDAD HAY RESISTENCIA.
STEVE OKLYN
4 de noviembre de 2017
Thimphu, Bhután
![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=1HiUsGd7uYMAX-Qk_zF&_nc_ht=scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=540ee951ddaa4764615850e23b5bd30f&oe=61567B7F "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=E-hW2SYA5ncAX8ehmCB&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=b3da67ef0678697de0403d7540b8ef16&oe=61551349 "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=rYlvwDgeL0QAX8CZ_-U&_nc_ht=scontent-cdt1-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=453e0f712f983aa9e780c9352fe090bd&oe=6155F275 "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")
