First Brain Weather Festival
第一屆腦天氣
Source: Weather in My Brain — Audio-Visual Arts Festival
From: Amy’s Random Notes
Date: 2003-09-03
“Weather in My Brain” (腦天氣, nooten-ki) is a Japanese Kanto dialect word meaning to be scatterbrained, to be missing a beat. The festival adopted its Chinese characters and extended the meaning to “weather inside the brain” (Weather in My Brain), inviting art groups from across the country working in audio-visual art and multimedia to participate. Running from 2003, it was held for three consecutive editions.
The first Weather in My Brain Audio-Visual Arts Festival in 2003 was a self-organised experimental arts event planned on a minimal budget by a group of artists: the principal organisers were members of the band Meteorologist — Lo Sung-tse and Huang Hung-chün — along with music critic Nien Li-wen, forming the “Meteorology Station Workshop,” and inviting dozens of Taiwanese and Hong Kong artists to perform. All participants created work using the brain as a concept, employing video, sound, and installation art to explore the unconscious, dreams, psychiatric drugs, and how the brain perceives auditory and visual stimuli. The second Weather in My Brain received government funding and invited international artists including Japan’s Takagi Masakatsu, Otomo Yoshihide, and Haino Keiji, as well as Poland’s Zbigniew Karkowski. The third edition was taken over by Huang Yi-chin of the Murky Records label; building on the first two while adding many electronic rock bands and a music short film screening.
All participants in Weather in My Brain were required to create work under the concept of the brain — the unconscious, dreams, the brain and drugs, how the brain perceives sound and image, the brain’s tolerance of sound — exploring through diverse artistic approaches the processes by which the human brain perceives and cognises auditory and visual stimuli.
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