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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.

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작가BRUCE LABRUCE
Bruce LaBruce has become one of the most controversial and influential members of the "queercore" or "homocore" movement of extreme or guerrilla-type homosexual artistic expression. A writer, editor, actor, and photographer, LaBruce is most widely known as a director whose films consistently challenge and invert the way queer culture is depicted and celebrated. Included in the Biennial will be a series of twenty photographs from the artist's film "The Raspberry Reich," depicting the leaders of various revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. The film combines the genres of pornography and agit-prop film. These kinds of polemical and highly politicized films were produced in the heyday of leftist activism in the late sixties and seventies. The Raspberry Reich references such films as Fassbinder's “The Third Generation,” Godard's”La Chinoise,” and Dusan Makavejev's “WR: Mysteries of the Organism,” and psychoanalytic writers such as Herbert Marcuse and Wilhelm Reich, all re-imagined within a pornographic context. The result is an experimental mixture of sexuality and politics, described by one critic as a "pornopoliticalpalooza." The film also acts as an examination of the phenomenon of "terrorist chic," depicting how the signifiers of radicalism are now packaged and sold by capitalist culture as a way of neutralizing and rendering ineffectual any sort of viable, sincere revolutionary impetus.
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