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.
As boats and buses go by
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As boats and buses go by
There are 2 main stories. Tien works at a noodle place, owned by a middle-aged female twin, likes to daydream, sometimes Tien is confused between the past and the future. In the beginning, Tien daydreams about different places such as lovers in the street, department store, a grandchild of one of the twin, noodle places, etc. The other story is about Hara who works at a passenger ship. She accidentally enters a storage and meets a man who has visa problems. He said he is reading a book to create his past because he comes from the future, and Hara, who thinks the past is almost choking her, cannot understand him. In the next scene, Hara eats noodles at the noodle place run by her mother and returns home by bus. There is no direct relation between the two stories, but there are subtle coincidences that temporarily connects them. Regarding the structure, the page is divided by 2 columns. The paragraph starts on the left, the next one comes on the right and the structure continues on this rhythm. As you read through the text, your eyes move from side to side.
YI SangWoo, Novelist
YI SangWoo is a novelist born in 1988 in Incheon, Korea. He has published Prism, warp, and two people walk.
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