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.
Busan en Rose
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Busan en Rose
It was a mysterious foggy day and the weather unexpectedly brought a large amount of fish into the shore. When detectives Pahl and Dae-gwon, who work at Busan Jungbu Police Station, were given a mission to find a missing foreigner. The Irish man is a science fiction writer and is visiting Busan to write his commissioned story for Busan Biennale 2020. But he suddenly disappears. The detectives find out that he is a non-smoker and doesn’t drink alcohol, so his team wonder if this could be a suicide happening to gain popularity. Hotel room, they find a packed suitcase, one black sneaker, a note with a phone number and a name. The name and number turned out to be a junk shop where the missing Irish man had. During the investigation Pahl and Dae-gwon heard the news that a giant squid reached the shore. The detectives go around Jung-ang area, Texas street, Jagalchi market, Bosu Book Street, and stores to find the clues. At last, they arrived at the fish market, where they find the giant squid caught in a big tank. People gave it a fish, and suddenly it gulped up a leg with a black sneaker.
Mark von SCHLEGELL, Novelist
Mark von SCHLEGELL is a Science Fiction writer born in New York City in 1967. He is a dual American/Irish citizen, currently residing in Cologne, Germany. His first novel Venusia was honor’s listed for the James Tiptree, Jr. award in science fiction and he has published Dreaming the Mainstream: Tales of Yankee Power, New Dystopia, Mercury Station: a transit, Sundogz,
and High Wichita. His experimental science fiction, literary theory, and art writing appears regularly in the independent publishing underground.
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