Wu Chung-wei Establishes Guishan Factory
吳中煒成立龜山工廠
Source: An Urban Otherworld — Notes on the Workers of the Guishan Factory
From: ET@T News
Date: 1998.9.3 · Author: ET@T
The “Guishan Factory” — an otherworldly urban space — had its origins in the spontaneous cross-disciplinary performance event “Ragged Arts Festival,” organised by Wu Zhong-wei, Lin Chi-wei, Ma Hui-chung, and others at the foot of Yongfu Bridge. That event gathered a critical mass of marginal, non-mainstream subculture forces alongside domestic and international underground noise-experimental groups and avant-garde performers, unleashing the most astonishing detonation of raw energy in post-martial-law Taiwan. The same group then mounted the following year’s “Air Rupture Festival” and the “Taipei International Post-Industrial Arts Season.” This native, riotous sensibility was transplanted in September 1999 to the “Guishan Factory” in Taoyuan, which gathered underground artists from across disciplines until its dissolution in 2001. Those who had once gathered there scattered to set their own fires — spreading their artistic ideas to new publics.
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