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 1. Planet Worm 2. Zooplankton
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The work floating on the sea among the pieces of Planet Worm shown at this biennale is made of his key material of balloons, but those installations on the sands are done of hard materials instead of balloons. These works also well exemplify Park’s imaginary concerns about worlds of new dimensions which might be present beyond reality. The organic forms, which are hard to be put under specific categories and appear to be either an gargantuan earthworm or newt have originated from Park’s imagination. With the realm of his imagination, it is an imaginary, inconspicuous organism that performs activities to restore the polluted earth into what the earth was in the beginning of the world while being capable of changing its color and disguising in accordance with surrounding conditions and being able to acclimate itself to any environment. 박 awaits for these organisms to help one’s perception of and grave reflection on the changes that have already occurred in the environments of the earth.