Michel Houellebecq’s new porn challenge

Michel Houellebecq’s new porn challenge
Michel Houellebecq’s new porn challenge
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Difficult times arise in all people’s lives. Stefan Ruitenbeek, for example, head of the Dutch artist collective KIRAC, detests Christmas and is not a model of a loving father. However, he was forced to be by his wife’s side as she gave birth to their second child at Christmas. He was comforted, however, by the fact that he knew someone who was even less excited about the holiday season.

Fearing they might be kidnapped by Islamist extremists, the brilliant, controversial and provocative Michel Welbeck and his wife Chianum Laissis Lee were forced to cancel their fairytale honeymoon in Morocco, despite having everything planned, including the French author’s meetings with prostitutes.

In fact, Welbeck did not fail to inform Stephan Ruitenbeck, with whom he had begun to correspond regularly by mail, about the calamity that befell him. And he probably did very well, as the Dutch artist thought of a way to ease his French friend’s grief, but also benefit him in some artistic way.

After informing him that she knew many prostitutes who would very much like to have sex with a famous writer, mainly out of curiosity, she offered to book him a room in an Amsterdam hotel where he could meet and socialize with some of them, asking as in exchange for Welbeck allowing him to film him in action in bed. And he finally accepted the proposal.

“KIRAC 27 promises to be a film between avant-garde and pornography, and the ratio of the two elements will be discovered on March 11, when the work will be screened at the cultural center Betty Asfalt in Amsterdam and at the same time on the Internet”writes Stefano Montefiori, correspondent of Corriere della Sera in Paris.

The film’s trailer suggests a simultaneously mocking and cynical tone that dominates many of the artistic challenges of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), the artists’ collective founded by Ruitenbeck in 2016. It begins with a near-pregnant woman undressing and being left in just her underwear, then throwing up in the street, before ending up in the hospital, where she gives birth in front of her more agitated and probably disgusted than excited husband – Ruitenbeck – who is filming the whole thing.

“The end of the year was approaching and, as always, I was dreading the approaching holidays. Mainly because it would mark the birth of my second child and I’m not cut out for the traditional role of enthusiastic father.”he himself narrates in the film.

Suddenly, however, the camera leaves the trembling and overjoyed mother holding the newborn and still bloodied baby in her arms and focuses on a naked from the waist up, sad and unshaven Michel Welbeck, with Ruitenbeck explaining why (cancellation of the honeymoon trip) about which the French writer was even less happy than he was with the advent of the holiday.

Laissis also appears sad, looking out the window while getting into a car. “His wife spent a whole month arranging hookups with prostitutes and now everything has fallen apart”, the director informs us, before Welbeck reappears, sitting on a double bed, wearing his pajamas and chatting, obviously in good spirits, to an equally good-natured girl with long hair and tattoos on her arms. A first passionate kiss follows and… the sequel on March 11th on the collective website kinac.nl.

Welbeck’s obsession with sex and his esteem for female professionals are well known, as is KIRAC’s propensity to provoke. But by securing the enfant terrible of French literature as the lead for her 27th film, she’s taken a major, giant leap, at least in terms of the media appeal her new work will have.

The Corriere journalist writes in his response that the collective’s previous films refer to Scandinavian directors: Lars von Trier, Thomas Videnberg and Ruben Estlund. But their most talked-about action was the “Honey Pot”, a kind of trap they set for the 34-year-old far-right Dutch thinker Sid Lucassen, author of misogynist and sexist texts in which he reproduces views of the so-called “involuntary celibates”. .

A girl from the group named Ginny van Roye posted an online ad offering her body to far-right men willing to have sex with her on camera, aiming “overcoming the Right-Left distinction through pornography”.

Lucassen was quick to express his interest, the two eventually met at a house overlooking the sea in Zadford, one of Holland’s best-known seaside resorts, and at one point began to strip, until shame and the far-right prevailed. thinker paused.

He, of course, also withdrew his consent to show the videotaped images, but eventually KIRAC showed them during a special event, in the presence of the Dutch artist Julian Adevech, who is being investigated by the authorities, accused by a number of women of attempts rape and violence.

The Dutch collective fights against the MeToo movement and the so-called “woke culture”, while abhorring political correctness (the fact that its founder matched with Welbeck is not surprising), as well as the shallowness of modern art. But more than that, he likes to provoke.

“KIRAC seeks love in the form of truth. It employs the most sincere and impossible fetish of the Enlightenment: dialectic, the belief, in other words, that every adversary is actually an ally in this primal search for truth.”, refers to the collective’s manifesto. So anything that helps to identify and reveal the truth is acceptable, even Michel Welbeck’s kissing and hooking up with prostitutes in a hotel room in Amsterdam.

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