Post-Industrial Art Festival
後工業藝術祭
Source: Taiwan’s Sound Liberation Movement
From: 2011 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion — Visitor’s Guide
Date: April 2011. Author: Lo Yueh-ch’üan
In 1995, Wu Chung-wei, Lin Ch’i-wei, Chiang Hui-hsien, Lin Chung-chieh, and others held a large-scale three-day outdoor performance at an abandoned distillery in Panchiao — the “Post-Industrial Art Festival.” Inviting Taiwan and international noise, experimental music, and horror theatre groups from Japan, Britain, and Switzerland to perform, the event featured extreme acts including nudity, screaming, instrument destruction, touching audience members’ bodies, lighting fires on site, and pouring spoiled slop. The “Post-Industrial Art Festival” can essentially be viewed as the second edition of the “Ragged Arts Festival,” continuing the ever-denser “cultural terrorist” network of the 1990s and the energy of crashing against the system — as if, in the form of avant-garde art, releasing in one explosion the emotions suppressed by over thirty years of martial law.
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