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The Blower
FOR A NEW REALITY SHOW
LIFE IS SHORT :
AN EXFOLIATING COMPANY!
N°26 February - March 2002
HERE, THERE ARE NO SCREENS TO DISTANCE US, NO EDITING TO MAKE US LOOK PRETTY. IN THIS MADCAP SHOW, WE FIND OUR USUAL PROGRAMMES, BUT HERE THE MASK OF PROPRIETY COMES OFF. THE EXPRESSION OF OUR SOCIETY'S TABOOS, PORNOGRAPHY AND VIOLENCE ALSO HAVE THEIR PLACE. THIS UNVARNISHED DENUNCIATION OF OUR DUPLICITY CONSTANTLY LEAVES THE VIEWER BETWEEN TWO CONTRADICTORY FEELINGS: UNEASE OR AMUSED COMPLICITY IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE OF "ANTONY DYKE", ON HIS BACK WITH ALL HIS LIMBS SPREAD, SURROUNDED BY FIVE MEN MASTURBATING? AND YET, IN THE END, THE ACTORS, WHOSE ANATOMY WE KNOW BY HEART, SEEM TOUCHING AND PARADOXICALLY MODEST, EVEN IN THE VULGARITY AND BAD TASTE THEY DISPLAY.
