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.
Electricity Speaks
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Electricity Speaks
[Cast] ELECTROMAGNETISM (mother), TELEPHONE (ex-husband), ELECTRICITY,
SUNLIGHT (father), WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION (daughter)
This is a story about electricity, written in a playscript format. The scene starts with a monologue by electricity, where she explains how she enables humans to start their days but also moves the city of Busan to wake up and begin by putting energy into households, streets, buildings, bridges, etc. Her mother, Electromagnetism reminds her daughter that she was born before humans, so she shouldn’t put too much effort into them. Her daughter, wireless telecommunication, says she is suffering from rapid growth. In her childhood she lit the first lightbulb at Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul in 1887. Her ex-husband had an important job to save Kim Gu from execution. Now grown into a fundamental being, she makes humans long for more energy, more electricity, and
faster development. The story ends with a conversation with her father, sunlight, that she will make sure that humans will crave her more.
Amalie SMITH, Novelist
Amalie SMITH is a writer and a visual artist born in 1985 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2010 she has published eight hybrid fiction books, among them the novel Marble in 2014 and Thread Ripper in 2020. Her work investigates the intertwining of materiality and ideas, which has led her to work with topics such as the fabric of the digital and ancient terra cotta figurines as a precursor to artificial life. She received numerous awards, including three-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation from 2017 to 2019, the Royal Crown Prince Couple’s Rising Star Award, Morten Nielsen’s memorial grant and Munch-Christensen’s cultural grant, and was nominated for the Montana Literary Award.
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Amalie SMITH Electricity Speaks