In October 2004 Channel_A gets in contact with a West-African music group A.A.K.Z.B. (Atelier Artistique Kaam- Zoug-Bangre) from Burkina Faso in an entertainment park in Wulai, Tawain. Their residency is located on a remote place, deep in the mountain of Wulai, where a cable car has to be taken to reach the Hotel and the park, and 10 musicians play everyday 3 times per day for the duration of 6 months.
The entertainment park of the hotel, shooting galleries, ghost train and children playgrounds frame the setting for the exotic group from West Africa, which perform just as another sensation of the park. These men work for the cost of accommodation, eating, and a pocket money (NT 1000-3000 per month), to make perhaps the most far-away trip of their life, to the most isolated location.
Because of the shut down of the park due to the renovation of the cable car, that solely transportation to the park, Channel_A gets the chance to invite this group to Taipei, with the help of Taipei Artist Village. Channel_A attempts to elevate their cultural exchange rate to enhance their cultural and economic value, to introduce A.A.K.Z.B. members to the cultural life of Taiwan instead of an isolate remote situation in the park, and finally to present west African music and dance to Taiwan.
At the opening of the Wayward Economy show, A.A.K.Z.B. perform to the degree of reaction of donation form the audience in order to raise the cultural exchange rate to economy or simply to another culture.
