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.
2014 Digital Shanshui
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관리자 2014-09-16 14:37
2011
Video, Installation
Variable Size
Digital Shanshui
2013
Video
20’
Taste the Tablecloth in Shi Man
2014
5 Videos
5’
New Massage
2014
Ready Made Goods
150x110x110cm
The Peach Tree
2014
Ready Made Goods
Variable Size
Jade Napas
The work is created during her travel in Yunnan province in Li Jiang, a village called Shi Man. “Bombing the Golden Flower” is the name for a well-known poker game in China. Literately, “Golden Flower” indicates beautiful young lady in the local culture. “Bombing the Golden Flower” is also a local cuisine’s name. In the contemporary Chinese society, playing poker game and Mah-jong are a common way for young people in town to kill their time. What Ye Funa is interested is the “low technological product” and the folk-custom interest within it, which are different from “perfect” view in mainstream mass culture. These artificial products often replace art and become “The second nature”, displaying as decorations in all kinds of life scenes.
These materials were majorly sampled from interviews with 25 local young people from 16 to 30 years old. In the process of sampling, I found a novel of William Morris called “News from Nowhere” coincidently in a random family’s rooms. In this book, the main character participated in a discussion about issues in socialist society, and earned a dream in Arcadia when he went back home. Inspired by this story, in my process, I gained a vision of countryside in which I borrowed from countryside young people, and entered the grand change in contemporary country. The grand dream of youth was distorted and shrunk into a kind of self-entertaining game. And the ideal “great view of the country” is going to be some kinds of no-returning Utopic hometown.