Charles-Arthur Feuvrier: FIX YOUR LIFE !
FIX YOUR LIFE !, 2022
masking tape, kraft paper, metallic cables, flat screen, 1:30 video loop
Centre d'art de Saint-Fons, France
A deep fake of the infamous podcaster Joe Rogan repeats over and over again a grotesque magical voluntarism mantra. A speech on self-realisation that crystallize the general problematic behind his discourse. The character is trapped in his monstrous body, quartered in an ever-growing masking tape virus, progressively eating the exhibition space. Joe Rogan is the most listened podcaster on Spotify. With controversial hosts and a mainly masculinist audience, his anti-vax, conspiracist and virilist discourse is spreading an individualist ideology that depoliticize systemic problems like depression and addiction.
Transcription of the video :
“The best advice I’ve ever…heard, the best advice I ever came up with, is that :
Live your life like you’re the hero in your movie, and right now is when the fucking movie starts and your life is a shitbag disaster like every fucking Arnold Swarzenegger movie where he wakes up and makes a blender full of pizza and ice cream and that’s what’s he… You know what I mean? These guys they’re like on the verge, they put the gun in their mouth, and then they put it down because they see a photo of their daughter.
Pretend that’s you, pretend you are, right now in the part of the movie that starts, and it shows you as a fucking loser… And just decide not to be a loser anymore.”