Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
11th September 2005
att. 2048
I'll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh... and, uh... heartless manipulators, about music... that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. And it's a... it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll. [...] And that music is so powerful, that it's quite beyond my control. And, ah... when I'm in the grips of it, I don't feel pleasure and I don't feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I'm talking about? Iggy Pop, 1977
On April 9 2017 the artist Katsuyori Shibata died upon the completion of his gesamtkunstwerk in front of 6000 paying guests in Fukuoka, Japan.
