First Lacking Sound Festival
第一次「失聲祭」
Source: The Most Authentic Taiwanese Sound Stir-fry — Lacking Sound Festival
From: Reverberations: Explorations in Taiwan’s Postwar Sound Culture, pp. 218–222
Date: May 2015 · Author: Feng Hsin
“Lacking Sound Festival” (失聲祭) is a regular sound art performance series organised by i/O Lab, held monthly from 2007. i/O Lab was founded in 2005 by young sound artists Wang Chung-kun, Yao Chung-han, and Chang Yung-ta, with Yeh Ting-hao, Wang Lian-sheng, and Huang Chung-ying joining later. In 2007, Taiwanese contemporary art circles erupted in a debate over “stagnant art” — dissatisfied with being labelled the “stagnant generation,” i/O Lab launched “Lacking Sound Festival,” uniting sound artists from across Taiwan to hold a monthly performance at the Nanhai Gallery in Taipei. The programme of experimental sound, digital audio-visual work, and interactive installations was intended as a platform for collective expression by the younger generation — a dense and comprehensive regular sound art programme in direct response to the “stagnant generation” charge.
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- From Student Movements to the Academy — A Short History of Taiwan’s Sound Art (Jeph Lo)
- Searching for Resources Requires a More Cross-Disciplinary Vision: Interview with Artist Wang Chung-kun (Taiwan Digital Arts Platform)
- Lacking Sound Festival as a Unit of Time: Prospects After the 100th Edition (The News Lens)
- Lacking Sound Festival Blog