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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관리자 2009-08-27 17:15
This work approaches this tiny border, which exists, between the hero and the failure, of this difficulty identifying our own referents. Are these two men messiahs either two poor wandering guys? Is this descent of the river closer to a descent in the hells either to an initiatory journey?
The film is built on a narrative deconstruction process, it create a tension in its first part, cheek with in the second and proposes an extremely divested end, based on the deconstruction of a pictorial image. This scene is inspired by the vision of the picture of Evariste Luminais, "Les Enerves de Jumieges" exhibited in the Musee des Beaux-Arts in Rouen (Normandy).
Just like this drift, this slow death in the sun is even the heights of the passive suicide.
The hero of the film, the one who will be led to the sacrifice, evokes certain passages from "The Accursed Share" of Georges Bataille, particularly those who make references to the human sacrifices, to the beauty, the luxury and the potlatch.