Nico & Nietzsche

I try to identify rock ‘n’ roll as the active carrier between fandom and religious fanaticism, by placing in the epilogue in Hey Man / Amen, a diptych titled Nico and Nietzsche. During my residency in Leipzig, I went to place records as offerings on both of their tombs; Sonic Youth’s Kill Yr Idols (1983) on that of Nietzsche (the idol killer himself), while on Nico’s I put The Velvet Underground’s bootleg Praise Ye the Lord (1988) following the alchemist figure of the Opus Magnum of the Red Groom and The White Bride.