Table of Contents Prism Escape #1 [summer 2002]

An esoteric cartoonist, a poet, a visionary and an animal lover, Pierre La Police anonymously shines forth on the French-speaking cultural landscape. Every interstellar tourist has to consult his works, which represent an inestimable source of information on the inhabitants of this planet.

"You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold", Alejandro Jodorowsky explains in his film The Holy Mountain. Because Josorowsky the alchemist uses his work as an athanor. The initiation is made up of films (Fando & Lys, El Topo, Santa Sangre...), of strip cartoons (The Incal, written with Moebius, The Métabarons, written with Giménez...), of books (L'Echelle des Anges, La Danse de la Réalité...) and of the Tarot. Alexandro Jodorowsky indeed dispenses the philosophy of the Tarot each Wednesday in a Parisian cafe, just to help those who suffer. The poet sows the seeds of consciousness. This interview took place a few minutes before one of these readings.

Gilles-Eric Seralini is a university lecturer and a researcher in molecular biology. He is also the author of a book entitled GM Foods, the Real Debate (Flammarion). He was one of the first scientists to warn public opinion against the dangers linked to Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). In this interview, he reminds us of a few basic facts about GMOs and tells us about the threat they represent.

Damien Bancal is the chief editor of ZATAZ, a magazine which sheds a different light on cyber crime, current news and police action. ZATAZ is the first French magazine to release information on the underground computer world. Since 1998, ZATAZ.com gathers 30,000 readers every day and more than 150,000 web surfers subscribe to the daily newsletter. ZATAZ's strength : a top class source network, and "a dash of humor for, after all, all this is only information".

Orlan has been working on the status of women and of the body since 1964. She is opposed to the prestige of pain and to the formatting of beauty, sports or religion. Her work on African and pre-Colombian self-hybridization - which consists in applying the beauty standards of antique civilizations (squinting, distorted head ) to her own image - is a continuation of her work on deconditioning, which she led from 1990 to 1993 with her plastic surgical operations.