Chris Korda responds to Lowlands cancellation

"It's interesting to see the fabric of the entertainment industry being dismantled"

July 18, 2002

Chris Korda was removed from the Lowlands line-up earlier this week, because of the ideas on his website for the Church of Euthanasia and the shocking video for the song I Like To Watch. Today he responded to the news about his forced cancellation.

Earlier this week, the Lowlands festival cancelled the performance of Chris Korda, because of his statements on the website of the Church Of Euthanasia. Lowlands director Eric van Eerdenburg declared that he considers Korda a 'sick pervert'. He does not want to give the American and his 'distasteful' ideas a stage at his festival. Chris Korda was not aware of the problems surrounding his performance at the festival until Thursday morning. But after some explanation, he would like to respond to the developments of the past week. Korda: "It is interesting to see how the entertainment industry is exposed. As long as antisocial ideas are just fashionable poses, sold to youth culture, sponsors are not threatened. But when fake rebellion is replaced by extreme art with a serious message, the industry quickly takes action to protect itself." Speaking about the video for "I Like To Watch" and the ideas behind it, Korda says: "It's a personal study in corruption and decadence; it shows the extent to which I have been perverted by the inherent voyeurism of the mass media. I am a poisoned mutant, necessarily adapted to an incurably neurotic and destructive society. In my lifetime, tens of thousands of species have been wiped out, their genetic data literally wiped from the face of the earth. The biological fabric of life is being incinerated, in a holocaust of the species, for my entertainment. I am not just a spectator, I am a collaborator, subsidizing the war machine of a collapsing empire. 'The earth is a giant cigar, and I'm smoking it.' It takes guts to face that much ugliness within myself. I should get a medal for it."

The preceding is a translation. The original language is here.