We're Destroying The Planet, And The Planet

To Me The Pain And The Blood Are Merely Means Of Artistic Expression.

My New Work Deals With Emptying My Body: 'boat Emptying, Stream Entering.' This Means That You Have To Empty The Body/boat To The Point Where You Can Really Be Connected With The Fields Of Energy Around You. I Think That Men And Women In Our Western Culture Are Completely Disconnected From That Energy, And In My New Work I Want To Make This Connection Possible.

I Want To Die Consciously, Without Fear, And Without Anger. Three Things. I See My Friends Dying With Fear And Anger And It's Terrible. My Grandmother Kept Her Clothes Ready For 40 Years For Her Funeral. She Lived To 103! But She Kept The Clothes In A Cupboard. As The Styles Changed, She Changed The Clothes! I Think If I Start Now With My Funeral, It's Good.

You Create A Friendship On A Level That You've Never Done Before. The Basic Kind Of Experience Is To Basically Give Love To Total Strangers All The Time, And That Really Changed Everything In Me. And This Piece Transformed Me More Than Any Other One Before. I Saw My Entire Life Differently. What Do I Have To Do? What Is My Passion On This Planet? I'm Much More Focused Than I Ever Was Before.

From The Very Early Stage When I Started Doing Performance Art In The '70s, The General Attitude - Not Just Me, But Also My Colleagues - Was That There Should Not Be Any Documentation, That The Performance Itself Is Artwork And There Should Be No Documentation.