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.
2012 Room of Memories
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Room of Memories
Room of Memories - Hommage to Poet Yoon Dong Ju
The space of exhibition is a small room that be used for slips storage. This is the space that had warehoused memories, with the most enriched memories within Busanjin Station as the collection of spaces. I intended to express the travelers who were traveling with their era’s pain and bruises within their self using symbolic objet and pictures based on the characteristics of the space as well as Busanjin Station’s memories that were unfolded in parallel with modern Korean history under Japanese colony, and tried to install my expressions in the Room of Memories. In the course, the person who settled down as the hero of ‘Room of Memories ’ is Yoon Dong Ju, the poet.
He was arrested while studying in Japan as political offender engaged in Korean independence movement, and passed away in a cold cell of the jail. I think he became the martyr to “love all perishing things with the mind to sing the song of stars” as his own poem describes so. Burnt clothes and photos with iron and fire express the commemorating remembrances for the poet in martyrdom. The soils packed in a travel bag metaphorically express his hometown hill that he covered with soils after he was blushed as he called his own name like counting the stars in his poem “the night I counted the stars” Objects will homage the painful but beautiful life and death of him, together with the poems written here and there in the ‘Room of Memories.