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.
2014 To The Eastward (The Lines Divide)
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2014
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To The Eastward (The Lines Divide)
The contestation of maritime territory politically within the South China Sea has had a long history. Of which, one of the most significant event was the establishment of Singapore as a British port and subsequently, a British colony. The Lines Divide is a video documentation of a theatrical performance set in the forest, based on the establishment of Singapore as a port by Sir Stamford Raffles in the year 1819. The theatre piece focuses on the signing of the treaty between Raffles and the Temenggong and Tengku Hussein that eventually led to the redistribution of power between the colonial forces (British and Dutch) in the maritime region of Southeast Asia. The consequences of which has had a lasting impact on the drawing up of boundaries in the Straits of Malacca and South China Sea till this day.