How do you consider yourself with respect to Guy Debord, the “Society of the Spectacle”, and Andy Warhol?
As far back as my first Apparition, I referred to Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame.” When the anchorwoman of Tournez manège asked me, in 1993, “Which artist would you have liked to be?” I replied “Andy Warhol.” The art press has often mentioned Warhol and Debord when speaking of me, something that has always amused me. In 1998, I decided to have a media encounter with Guy Debord when a satellite TV channel contacted me to promote the works of contemporary artists that recalled May ‘68. I did not wish to broadcast some Apparitions that had already had their time in that media and asked them to give me a camera crew specialized in man-in-the-street interviews at cinema and theatre performances. We went along the Champs Elysées asking passers-by and tourists to read, without comment, a selection of key phrases by Guy Debord I had chosen. Debord’s book and film are a rereading of Marx’s Das Kapital. After that he published Commentaries on La société du Spectacle. Asking tourists along the
