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.
Inger Wold LUND
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Born 1983 in Bergen, Norway
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Inger Wold LUND,Virtual Dreaming, 2020, Virtual walk for the Busan Biennale 2020, 30min
Inger Wold LUND is both an author and a visual artist working with sound and text as her primary medium. Her artworks are dominated by precise and elaborate descriptions of the visible world through which she makes intense and tactile experiences for her readers and listeners. In her practice she investigates erotic meetings and connects them to our sensual perception of the material world. LUND writes detailed descriptions of ordinary situations that make her audience see what usually passes by unnoticed and untold. She shares half-memories of old conversations, facts, and associations in a way that makes them feel equally important, equally memorable. In her latest book, Erotika from 2017, LUND uses both humor and earnestness when she writes about erotic encounters. While most erotic literature is focused on the sexual act Erotika is primarily about the small, erotic details experienced just before and after the act. The actual sex is enticingly left to the imagination of the reader. Her audible artworks encourage her audience to sharpen their attention towards what is normally veiled as well.