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.
2004 One Minute
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관리자 2005-10-12 15:51
Just as a musician writes down the songs of the songs to be played live on a sheet, the initial idea was to vreate a book with a sequence of images which would serve us as a score for the realization of an action which would be video recorded. Such imaged, put one after the other, create a sequence ; the succession of such sequences plus the intervals between one image and the following create a structure : this abstract structure would be translated to the reality by actual people and on real sites. I did a first shooting in Spain at the begining of this year, now the idea is to do exactly the same in Busan in a total different context, considering the possibility of building up something with the images obtained from both shooting.