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 Communion
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Communion
The generation of bumping with the world, beginning life, unfolding dream and challenging. The most passionate generation in life is 20s, and I am in 20s now. However, I did not live passionately yet, and I did not think about my bucket list seriously. Suddenly, I was curious of other people’s thought. What ideas do they have? Do they have bucket list? What kind of bucket list do they have? Therefore, I went to out to listen to their story. Wherever I met them and heard their bucket list such as street, subway, bus, Universities, shopping center, cafes, terminals, department stores, and etc.. Students, missionaries, unemployed people, and employers, etc. as many jobs as bucket list. Someone wants to ride, someone wants to leave, someone wants to see and someone does not want to do anything else. Those stories seem weir but it emits pleasure, simply and fresh energy. In addition, sharing the energy, sympathizing their stories, smiling, and touched, we want to have time to think about their bucket list. I am one of the spectators as well who wants to do it.