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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.


2006 The Good Young Days a Brother

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관리자 2009-08-26 17:01

작가Wol Sik Kim
THE INSTALLATION ARTIST Wol Sik Kim has shown a steadfast concern for the process of modernization and the resulting urban landscape. He is not merely an observer when it comes to his interest in the appearance of the genuine life of the city that is under the shadow of the logic of development and real estate speculation. Rather, his concerns manifest in terms of his active interventions in specific sites. Using the images and stories appropriated from literature and popular culture, he projects a kind of mindscape onto the context of reality. His contribution to the Busan Biennale, construction in the form of a ship, Untitled-Semina, Party of Consolation, is a sort of monument intended to 'console' the Oncheoncheon Stream and its surrounding area that has lost its ecological system due to urban development. Dim gas also composed A Paean for the Hard-working Water, which will be played during the exhibition period. The composition takes the rhythm of Jirubac, which originated broad s 'Jitterbug' but developed s n authentic form of dance among the local common people. On the opening day of the exhibition local performance group wall collaborate with the artist to play the music, thereby creating mood for a party for the local residents to enjoy together.
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