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.
Ocean View, Tundra Swan, Jagalchi Sky, Haeundae Texas Queen Kong, Refuge
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Ocean View
Tundra Swan
Jagalchi Sky
Haeundae Texas Queen Kong
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The five poems are short, emotional and descriptive texts, which include several direct references to locations and places in Busan like Haeundae, Gwangan Bridge, Jagalchi and the Busan Wildlife Rehabilitation Center located opposite from MOCA museum.
KIM Hyesoon, Poet
KIM Hyesoon is a poet born in Uljin, Korea in 1955. Beginning as a poet in 1979 with the publication of Poet Smoking a Cigarette and four other poems in Literature and Intellect, she has published 10 poetry collections including, From Another Star, Father’s Scarecrow, The Hell of a Certain Star, Our Negative Picture, My Upanishad, Seoul, Poor Love Machine, To the Calendar Factory Supervisor, A Glass of Red Mirror, Your First, and Sorrowtoothpaste, Mirrorcream. Her collections that are translated in English include: Mommy Must be a Fountain of Feathers, All the Garbage of the World, Unite!, Blossom Pig, Autobiography of Death and Phantom Pain of Wings. She has received multiple literary prizes including the Kim Su-Yong Literary Award, Sowol Poetry Literature Award, Midang Literature Award, Daesan Poetry Award, Lee Hyoung-Gi Literary Award, and Griffin Poetry Prize.
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KIM Hyesoon Ocean View, Tundra Swan, Jagalchi Sky, Haeundae Texas Queen Kong, Refuge