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 To Busan, In Busan, From Busan
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To Busan, In Busan, From Busan
In my project, instead of remaining as a passive inspector, I communicate with participants and visitors directly being involved in the place itself. In the process, I intend to commune with them. Through the project <To London, In London, From London>(2011) completed while Hyemin was staying in London and one of the series <To Busan, In Busan, From Busan>(2012), it finds private historicity containing several places in Busan. She asked people who used to live in Busan - or who passed through Busan - to send a memorable image taken in Busan with a related story. With this personal photographic memory, Hyemin draws the participant on the transparent board and takes a photo of it again at the same place where the participant took the photo, and then makes a postcard as a final outcome. The captured memory is then exhibited as a souvenir postcard in the gallery and is shared with the exhibition visitors. And I expect the visitor to write a letter on the postcard and send it back to the initial sender with his/her own stories and memories inscribed. From the chain of process, people who never met each other can share with same place and each of their memory. This project rebirth the contest pictures o new images by reinterpret the memory and experience of Busan. Also, attaching others' memory on the postcard, it is not retrospective memory staying in only the past anymore. It is a retrospective and prospective project at the same time in that it changes to different story and fullfills with future-oriented memory.
Furthermore, she produced a guide book called <Top 5 Busan Guide Book> based on the memories of participants of the project <To Busan, In Busan, From Busan>. The guide book which contains participants' subjective and privative personal memories will be exhibited. It seems to courage visitors to travel Busan. people in the drawing for example 'Consolation Place of mind', 'Had been with Her', introduce subjective thought and private history. The guide book is not only to overcome share of private memories, but also revert to a visual art by overlapping all the memories.