Purple Magazine
— The Revolutions Issue #40 F/W 2023

neville wakefield

interview by OLIVIER ZAHM & ALEPH MOLINARI portrait by OLIVIER ZAHM   At the crossroads of nature and site-specific projects, Desert X’s founder reinvents land art as an experimental antidote to art and commerce.    OLIVIER ZAHM — Let’s start by asking where a source of real transformation could come from today. For me, the only places are art and fashion. I don’t really believe in transformation coming from political organizations… NEVILLE WAKEFIELD — What about corporate interests? We now have these nation- states of Microsoft, Google, Apple, OpenAI, and so on transforming the way we see knowledge. They are the ones now controlling the networks, neural and otherwise, on which we build culture. OLIVIER ZAHM — That’s a major issue now, coming from California to the rest of the world. This is, for sure, a source of transformation. NEVILLE WAKEFIELD — There’s a certain immodesty to identifying our times…

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