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.
The Refrigerator
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The Refrigerator
Moojin Kim, who is in a middle school baseball team lives with his grandfather, Donghyun Kim. Even though he is young, he has been through a lot of things in life. When Ilwoo, Moojin’s friend who is also in the baseball team, visits Moojin, he finds Moojin removing all the stuff from the old refrigerator with tears. Suddenly Doyoung Choi, their baseball team coach visits Moojin’s house. He had been visiting parents of the baseball team to gain their signature against his charge on sexual harassment. Moojin and Donghyun make up stories to pretend his grandfather is away and Moojin burst out tears realizing that his words were too clumsy to believe. Doyoung seems to be leaving the house but then he suddenly picked up on the old refrigerator. Then he senses the odor of death, sharing his story when his grandmother passed away and then suddenly hears the refrigerator making loud noise. Moojin and Donghyun freak out and Doyoung then slowly opens the fridge… There is a lot of uncanny and unresolved emotions in the story.
PYUN Hye-young, Novelist
PYUN Hye-young is a novelist born in Seoul in 1972. She has published novels, including Aio Garden, To the Kennels, Evening Courtship, and As Night Was Passing, and full-length novels, Ashes and Red, To the Western Woods, The Law of Lines, The Hole and Let the Dead. She has received the Hankook Ilbo Literary Award, Yi Hyo-Seok Literature Award, Today’s Young Writer Award, Dong-in Literary Award, Yi Sang Literary Award, Hyundae Literary Award, and Shirley Jackson Award.
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