Following a similar action in Berlin in 1999, Dutch artist Iepe B.T. Rubingh brought his "Joker" street performance to Tokyo Mar 11, 2000. He was detained by bemused police 12 days and fined 50,000 yen for his efforts…
Iepe Rubingh is a radical free thinker who not only blurs art from one’s perception of reality but creates a bona-fide reality from a foundation of art, and one of his masterpieces is the new sport called chessboxing…