Participants in the 2010 TV series «Wipe Out» drove to Magic Mountain
for jouissance: that is, being battered around by brightly colored, slowly rotating foam shapes.
This is anachronistic fantasia, to be sure, but to witness the film is to be transported:
for a moment, the tumult and
jouissance of an otherwise - distant era finds expression in the here and now.
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For Koons», Mind, July 23, 2014 (illustrated)(online) Simon Watson, «Jeff Koons at the Whitney», Huffington Post, August 26, 2014 (illustrated)(online) Manami Fujimori, «Jeff Koons», Art Techo, October 2014, p. 50 (illustrated) Luther Blissett, «La
jouissance du retour en enfance», Beaux Arts editions, December 2014.