From July 16 to August 17, 2021, OliveOlivier retired from the world... digital world.

        A few days before, he had sent an e-mail to his relatives not to worry about this "silence" and had put aside a certain amount of money in cash.

         So he didn't go on a retreat to a monastery or an Amish community, or build a cabin in the woods or live as a hermit. No, he simply left no digital record of what he did during that time, but without it interfering with his daily life. A social life just as rich as usual: working, meeting his friends, strolling in his city (Toulouse), walking around its surroundings, etc.

        And if he was no longer "reachable", whether by email, phone or other connected objects, he was still reachable by mail or if someone came to visit him, at the risk of not being at home at the time...

       This long term performative act allows us to raise many societal questions that govern our way of life - and our associated digital data - from a political, economic, artistic or religious point of view. So since Man knows himself to be aware.

       On March 20, 1961 Marcel Duchamp concludes an intervention that he made to a conference where he was invited by : "The great artist of tomorrow will go underground".

       In 2021, OliveOlivier followed, for a determined time, this precept:

       Il a "pris le maquis".