Sky Rupture Festival
空中破裂節
Source: The Clash between Underground and Mainstream Cultural Fields — Wu Chung-wei and the 1990s Ragged Audiovisual
From: Artist, No. 470, pp. 212–219
Date: February 29, 2008. Author: Yu Wei
In 1995, the Taipei County Fine Arts Exhibition transformed into a curatorial, outdoor-environmental-art open-call exhibition. Wu Chung-wei — who had shot to fame barely half a year earlier with the Ragged Festival — was selected again, this time with the “Taipei Air Rupture Festival.” A chaotic mix of environmental sculpture, happenings, noise, and garbage art, it was also a utopian community lasting over a month. A full month before the exhibition opened, Wu Chung-wei and a group of participants had already occupied land at the Erh-chung Floodway in Taipei County, constructing stages and exhibition spaces from waste shuttering boards and canvas awnings, living on site, growing vegetables, reciting poetry, making improvised music, installing found objects, and staging little-theatre performances. The original plan even included printing banknotes.
Air Rupture Festival coverage, Liberty Times, April 20, 1995
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