ARAI said
Almost 4 years ago Japanese diet decided what are Japanese flag and Japanese
anthem in the law. Before there was no law for Japanese flag and the national
anthem. Now in some school like graduation, People should show Japanese
flag and sing the national anthem. And sometimes teachers and students
who do not like to respect the flag and sing the national anthem in the
ceremony are punished by the director because of the law now.
Before there was some agreement among people with Japanese flag was
symbol of militarism and the anthem celebrate the Emperor in spite of
they agree or not.
ARAI took off his clothes, keeping only a small yellow Pikachu Pokemon
fig leaf on his genitals, and squats on a canvas. While singing the Japanese national anthem "Kimi-ga-Yo means Our superior@Emperor
regime", he presses a plastic tube containing red paint from just below his buttocks,
as if excreting red human waste.
and TAKEDA played "the Japanese national anthem" by Taisho harp
Using his bare buttocks on the "waste." he paints a full but irregular rising sun in the middle of the canvas that turns out to be a copy of the Japanese national flag, which he later hangs on the wall.
After hanging it on the wall, ARAI was singing "International" in Japanese and using his head to try making red paint all over the canvas.
and TAKEDA played "International" by Taisho harp
Almost last moment of performance, a security guard came and tried to stop
the performance.
At last the canvas became a awkward copy of Red flag.
A small board (left) is a big copy of "People's Daily" on 5th
June 1989 which newspaper is ran by People republic of China.
The "People's Daily" on 5th June 1989 said
"Yesterday Peoples Army of martial law suppressed riot of counter-revolutionists
in Tiananmen Square."
ARAI Shin-ichi (Japan) + TAKEDA Ken-ichi (Japan)
"Tourist #8 International"
TAKEDA Ken-ichi is a musician, he founded "Study Group" together with Ryuichi
SAKAMOTO to perform improvisational music experiment. He has performed
extensively in Japan and overseas through Asia-Meets-Asia.
TAKEDA Ken-ichi website (his group "A-MUSIK") http://am.jungle-jp.com/
http://am.jungle-jp.com/scores/index.html Here you can get almost of all his/their music of MP3 file in public domain.
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