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.
Daily Walking Rehearsals
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Daily Walking Rehearsals
Looking for a place to live in Busan, the main character takes a look at Yongdusan apartment near Gukje market. When she/he passes by the old Yuna Department Store building on the way to the apartment or looks over the U.S. Cultural Center (currently Busan Modern History Museum) over the window, the main character recalls the arson at the U.S. Cultural Center in Busan which occurred in March 18, 1982. The main character’s friend introduces her/him to a middle-aged woman named 'Choi Myung hwan.’ Thanks to the friend—who is in a good relationship with Choi and sometimes gets paid for managing her apartment—the main character is able to stay at the mansion owned by Choi. Having worked near the U.S. Cultural Center for more than 20 years, Choi is a witness to the arson. Also she was close to a woman named Kim Eun-sook who was one of the actual participant in the arson. Later, as they get closer, Choi Myung-hwan starts to talk about the arson little by little. Although it is a trivial story, the main character follows it to envision the insecure and chaotic situation at the time of the incident.
BAK Solmay, Novelist
BAK Solmay is a novelist born in Gwangju, Korea in 1985. Besides the novel Then What Shall We Sing?, The Eyes of Winter, The Dog I Love, she wrote full-length novels including Eul, I Want to Write a Hundred Lines, Time in the City, Slowly Head First, and International Night. She has received the Kim Seung Ok Literary Award, Moonji Literary Award, and Kim Hyeon Prize.
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