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.
2012 Osana
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Osana
The black and white video “Osana” which is entitled Osana displays the shining radiations or electromagnetic flows produced by a Telsa reel - an electric engine created over a century ago by Nikola Telsa to make a high-frequency and high-intensity alternating current.
The movie camera’s lens, which was set as close as possible to the reel, creates a group of interferences bringing on electric arcs. Emerging from the electrode in all directions, they travel all over the projection screen area, disappearing and reappearing again later composing an hypnotic ballet accompanied with an atonal and random musical score. The point here is to use the potential of an engine initially set up for scientific purposes to produce sparks in an poetic goal.
The images created owing to the Telsa reel carry an evocative power drawing its sources from the collective and popular imagination. The video refers to science fiction arts but also to offensive and defensive weapons that are available to video games players to electrocute or carbonize their target with the help of destructive (electric) shocks. It also refers to a group of scientific experiences that were popularized by the Media as well as for example Roman Signer’s artistic investigations.
Apocalyptic vision, cheering of a new world or a new order as mysterious as threatening, black sun, eclipse, nebula or destructive energy bowl, Osana engages different poetic readings and a group of daydreams where science and art come together.