The little virtual beast that goes up, rising … – Liberation

Every week in « 400 culs »Agnès Giard, anthropologist attached to the University of Paris Nanterre, specialist in Japan, passes contemporary speeches and sexual practices in a skeptical and distanced analysis, nourished by the latest research in the human and social sciences.

« Say, you couldn’t make me a tube that passes through a ring, which changes into a tube, and like that, vice versa, so that the two go inside in turn? » At the start, in 1995, Jérôme Lefdupvisual artist and director living in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), had just this bizarre idea of ​​a perpetual mechanics to animate the delusional montages he made for television. “The queen of 3D at the time was Farrah Diod, transgender artist, creative beast on a computer called Amiga, in short. When I tell her about my object, Farrah answers, delighted: « A autofuck? » «  A few days later, he is modeled. « Autofuck, I used to say that it is a bit of the child I had with Farrah. » Asked on the phone, Jérôme Lefdup, 63 years old today, marks a time to stop when he talks about his friend, swept away by AIDS in 2012. He resumed. “Thirty years later, autofucks proliferate. There are in metal, leopard, foam or snake. They keep interpenetrating