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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.


2004 Rebels of the Dance

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관리자 2005-10-12 15:47

작가Fikret Atay
Shot in Batman the hometown of Fikret Atay, the scene of this video work is an enclosed booth of a cash machine. W see two kids step into the cabinet from which easy access to the annex banking offices seems highly improbable. In an attempt to appropriate this space, they being to sing. The Lyrics and the language are uncannily absent from their chants. These are strong melodie rythms devoid of any words, yet, the effective synchronisation and polyphony between them seems a proof of their ability to communicated by means of a code. The audience is left alternated by this a significant effect. The only words at the end of the chant are in Kurdish : "Who is the Pasha? Who is the Valet?"
Extract freely interpreted from a text by Erden Kosova(in : "The Gorge the Balkans", Kassel, 2003
Fast and Best, 2002
This work has been filmed in Batman, Fikret Atay's city of origin, close to the Iraqi border. The young Kurdish artist examine in the most direct and subtle way the notion of discipline and collective expression that could gather and direct group around the quest of a shared ideal. We attend a preparatory training in view of a traditional kurdish dance competition. We are trapped by the fascination of the jeans culture, of folkloristic dance, of military parade. Disturbing and efficient.
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