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.
2010 The Wilderness
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Three of her early representative works are Forty Below (1999), Too dark for night (2001) and Glass Hour (2002).
In Metamorphosis, producedin 2008 and screened in many cities, she shows the movement of a waterfall that continuously undulated as if by some powerful will, and added to it a heavy echo, causing the viewer to experience an overwhelming emotion that resembled fear.
The new work she presents here, The Wilderness,is the first part of the project on which Langan is currently working. Depicted in the film is a wilderness in some unknown place. The desolate, fin de siècle scenery resembles a scene not from the present but from the future at a time when our civilization has met its end. The reason, whether this is the world after a nuclear war or whether a judgment has been handed down on mankind, is uncertain.