How do you see the Japanese underground scene? And I think most of the them do not really manage to live out by art, but they do fucking amazing stuff. Also there are a lot of places where they can show their art.
Why should I be a salary man with …. In the Europe, we are surrounded by many other countries, so if the people want to do something, all the underground artist in Europe are having facilities to a network of happenings all around the same continent. But in Japan, if you go out from Japan, you are in the sea. So is much more difficult to make people understand that actually you can travel for these things. Some friends who are working with the exhibitions, they had been to South Korea to join a book fair.
And they said that they seen so many Japanese people there. So these means Japanese people also start going out to other countries for the their art.
I always thought about it like wow, fuck, this is new, When i saw Melt Banana playing in Paris for the first time, 20 years ago. I was what the fuck is this! Mixing it with so many influence from the west, USA, Europe, then with the Japanese touch which is something belonging to that culture and I had no idea about it.
But of course they had access to things more than other asian country since before, they had much more internet, a lot of Japanese students study in USA or western Europe because they had the money to do it, so they got more influences. If compare to other eastern asian countries, its more develop in a way, and they had their own style, like new school traditionalised.
