• The 7th Taipei County Art Exhibition “Resurgence on the Tamsui River”

This exhibition canceled its general call out and continued with “juror responsibilities.” Organized by Lin Hsin-yueh, with the theme “Resurgence On the Tamsui River,” the exhibition combined the imagery of a kite with selected artists to create works in the sky above Tamsui River. Most artworks echoed the theme by flying, floating or hanging in the air.

“Taipei Breaking Sky Festival”

Wu Chung-wei’s project “Taipei Breaking Sky Festival” was selected for the 7th Taipei County Art Exhibition, held at the mouth of Erchong Floodway under the Chongxin Bridge in Sanchong. The one-month village of “Wrong Homeland” was erected, banknotes were issued, with a new community integrated with installation, performance, theater and noise art. At the same time, the plan utilized large balloons in human-form to lift up tables and chairs, a bronze statue of Chiang Kai-shek and a boiling hotpot, drifting to another place in the city, falling from the sky, smashing and stacking onto a small hill. However the balloon was damaged shortly after take off, and the original plan was not realized.

• The 4th “Ghost Festival Zhongyuan Pudu: Religious Arts”

The 4th “Ghost Festival Zhongyuan Pudu: Religious Arts Festival” not only continued eco-friendly water lanterns, religious processions, and Pudu ceremonies of erecting bamboo poles, releasing water lanterns, chanting and offerings, but also incorporated contemporary art with Wu Chung-wei’s Ten Court Labyrinths, small theater including Pudu Pervert Ghost by United Association of Wage-earners and Ghost Lantern by Extra Theater Troupe, and Yin Yang Road by Box Theater Troupe.

• New Formosa Art Festival

In 1995, Taipei County Art Exhibition organized four chapters of “New Formosa Art Festival,” including “International Post-Industrial Art Festival,” “1995 Body Performance Festival: When East Meets West,” “I Don’t Know, I Want,” Women Artists Group Exhibition, and “New Formosa Spatial Sculpture Exhibition.”

New Formosa Art Festival I: International Post-Industrial Art Festival

Organized collectively by Wu Chung-wei, Lin Chi-Wei, Taipei County Cultural Center and “Nude Ginseng Studio” in September of 1995, at the soon-to-be-demolished third warehouse of Banqiao Winery, “International Post-Industrial Art Festival” brought together domestic and foreign underground noise and avant-garde performance groups. In controversial performances of sex and violence, long-accumulated underground cultural energy was explosively released, and considerable underground performances were exposed to mass media for the first time.

New Formosa Art Festival II: 1995 Body Performance Festival (When East Meets West)

A program planned by the Body Phase Studio, invited Dutch performer Anneke Bargel and Japanese performance artist Seiji Shimoda to perform two pieces. Anneke Bargel and Seiji Shimoda also held two body workshops.

New Formosa Art Festival III: I Don’t Know, I Want

This exhibition gathered the works of 9 female artists. According to Tang Huang-Chen’s interpretation, the “I Don’t Know” in the exhibition title represents a state before consciousness, while “I Want” points to desire. Therefore the nine artists apply “I Don’t Know, I Want” as their exposition, and through unique feminine visual vocabulary showcase inner monologues of each female artist.

New Formosa Art Festival IV: New Formosa Spatial Sculpture Exhibition

The exhibition title “Doomsday vs Foreign Land” alters the bright display of the gallery into two contrasting spaces: Wang Te-Yu’s Work No. 21 converted the black space into a feminine space with soft, elastic curtains, while Huang Chih-Yang’s Melancholy Forest hangs 24 plastic human figures wound with telephone cords in mid-air, forming a melancholic forest that critiques industrial civilization and consumer culture.