Broken Life Festival
破爛生活節
Source: From Student Movements to the Academy — A Brief History of Taiwan’s *Noise Magazine*/Sound Art Scene
From: Music Notes
Date: July 17, 2006. Author: Lo Yueh-ch’üan
As the “Sweet Honey” café closed in early 1994, owner Wu Chung-wei, together with Chiang Shih-fang, Li Shih-ming, and others, planned to find a location for a large-scale event to carry on the spirit of Sweet Honey. Originally named “Riverbank Call,” the event was eventually titled the “Taipei Ragged Life Festival” (P’o-lan Sheng-huo Chieh), held September 2–5 under the Yungfu Bridge in Taipei, bringing together noise, rock, little theatre, S&M, installation art, and experimental short films. The hand-drawn posters for the Ragged Festival bore slogans such as “Everyone come — stop working! Life is brief, gorgeous, and terrifying” and “Life is beautiful and frightening — so stop working for other people.”
Ragged Life Festival flyer draft (courtesy: Yao Jui-chung)
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External Links
- How Wild the Ragged! — In Conversation with Artist Ch’en Shu-ch’iang (Part One) (Readmoo News)
- How Wild the Ragged! — In Conversation with Artist Ch’en Shu-ch’iang (Part Two) (Readmoo News)
- Always Happening — From “Sweet Honey” to the “Taipei Ragged Life Festival” (PAR Performing Arts)
- Taipei Ragged Life Festival 1994 (Flickr album)