Busan Biennale
The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.
The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.
This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.
Nika Dubrovsky
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관리자 2024-12-02 11:01
Visual Assembly, 2021-present, participatory installation, dimension variable.
Fight Club, 2022, 3-channel video, colour, sound, 30min. 24sec.
Over the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, Nika Dubrovsky began working on the project Visual Assembly (2021-present), a democratic form of creative collaboration – used to re-imagine new ways to run and organise our social systems. For the video Fight Club (2022), she stages a series of theatrical dialogues designed to engage a diverse audience in discussing the issues that define our lives. This video is inspired by Brechtian learning plays, the Commedia dell’Arte, the Dadaist theatre, and the New York experiments of the 1980s. David Graeber asserted that human consciousness only exists in dialogue with others, and the idea of the individual ‘thinker-philosopher’ is nothing but a myth. David himself was often subjected to public attacks and withstood them with fortitude. Monitors play videos featuring actors who were David Graeber’s friends: Jacques Servin from The Yes Man Group, Savitri D from the Church of Stop Shopping, Jamie Casey from Global Assembly and Extinction Rebellion engaged in a dialogue that discusses ideas about human nature, the social contract, property, and the state. Fight Club is a public learning space designed to change public common sense through debate.
Nika Dubrovsky
