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>> joe: no, i came to paint. but the paintings were like implosions, where i was studying the world around me and myself inside, and the performances became literal explosions. ♪ i learned violence from my old man. so i was angry. when your house is on fire, you know, you don't read poetry and you don't sing a folk song. you gotta scream. >> anthony: i missed all the great art of the time. i came for heroin and i came for music. other than that, i didn't live here. but man, a lot of people didn't make it and i remember i guess around 1980, it was like,

You look, the more that you learn. and it's in non-linear time, you know, like you're exploring at your own pace whatever you want to look at. and someone else might start in a different place, and it might tell a different story. >> anthony: the performance art -- at one point you came to paint, or did you come to paint and perform? >> joe: no, i came to paint. but the paintings were like implosions, where i was studying the world around me and myself inside, and the performances became literal explosions. ♪ i learned violence from my old man. so i was angry. when your house is on fire, you...

Became literal explosions. i learned violence from my old man. so i was angry. when your house is on fire, you know, you don't read poetry and you don't sing a folk song. you gotta scream. >> anthony: i missed all the great art of the time. i came for heroin and i came for music. other than that, i didn't live here. but man, a lot of people didn't make it and i remember i guess around 1980, it was like, something is happening and no one knows what it is. >> joe: you mean the aids? a lot of that time exists in my mind like a dream. like an opium dream. i have these people that i loved

I learned violence from my old man, so i was angry. when your house is on fire, you know, you don't read poetry and you don't, you know, sing a folk song. you know, you got a scream. -- gotta scream. [ screaming ] >> i missed all the great art of the time. i came for heroin, i came for music. other than that, i didn't live here. but a lot of people didn't make it. and i remember, i guess, around 1980, it was like something is happening yet no one knows what it is. >> you mean the aids? yeah, a lot of that time exists in my mind like a dream, like an opium dream.