"This was too disgusting even for me, and I like disgusting things," Wang Mo-Lin confessed to reporters at a news conference in Panchiao, after the town's Broken Life Festival had ended amid scenes of violence and disarray. "Frankly, what was supposed to be a serious concert of alternative music was treated by most of the groups as an opportunity to cause trouble."
Wang, the director of Taiwan's Body Phase Studio performance art troupe, explained how the evening had degenerated into chaos: "First the leader of the Swiss group Schimpfluch ran around the hall dressed in bin liners and randomly kissing women, until one of them bit him so hard on the lip that he had to be taken to hospital. Next, the Japanese noise group C.C.C.C. abandoned their performance, because the previous act had dumped sewer water over the audience, and the stench caused their drummer to vomit during his solo. Then it got worse. Z.S.L.O.'s entire act consisted of a short man in stockings being chased around the hall by a couple who, when they caught him, crammed garbage, gravel and rotting food into his mouth. By the time Eric Lai came on and swallowed a live boa constrictor, which then crawled unharmed out of his colon, members of the audience were vomiting in their seats. And finally, knowing that only an act of extreme insanity could top what had come before, LTK Commune ended the evening by pouring gasoline all over the stage, setting fire to it and gutting the entire auditorium. I now plan to take this show to Europe, and have been told by a British policeman to contact Andrew Lloyd Webber, a man who understands the avante garde and owns many theatres in London."
China News, 15/9/95
Also see Island of Sound's page which contains footage.
Art Demolition Festival 1995 - This video series on youtube appears to be the actual event. Inspirational to say the least.
It appears to be called the "Taipei Refuse Festival" in the video.
ZSLO: Zero and Sound Liberation Organization
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