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 Body Temperature
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관리자 2011-04-11 22:42
The word "heat (body temperature)" frequently appears in the list of materials used in Muraoka's work. As is often referred to in contemporary physics also, when some "thing" is created, a certain thermal energy is required. Muraoka has even captured the movement of a human being creating something as an emission of thermal energy. Conversely, things that do not possess this thermal energy are dead.
His work Body Temperature mostconcisely expresses Muraoka's outlook on life. At first glance, it merely appears to be a copper cylinder on top of a pedestal. However, the cylinder contains a device that consistently maintains the temperature of Muraoka's body on a certain day and at acertain time. People who touch the cylinder experience the heat of a human being who "lived" at a certain time. The interior of the cylinder is intermixed with no substance that is a human part. However, the small amount of heat required for confirming human life and not human death is undoubtedly stored inside.