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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.


2018 Army: 600,000 Portraits

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관리자 2018-08-21 11:55

작가Kelvin Kyungkun Park

Army: 600,000 Portraits, 4K video installation, 2 channel audio, 12min, 2018, Courtesy of the artist

Kelvin Kyung Kun PARK
Army: 600,000 Portraits

At this year’s Biennale his 17 minute-long single channel video installation Army: 600,000 Portraits (2016)—of which the feature film version Army (2018) is scheduled to be released later this year—will be exhibited. Unlike the full-length film that deals with a man’s entire time in military service, the work for the Biennale is an edited version created using various footage from the film and the narrative is removed. Park set aside the multilayered issues of the word ‘army’ for a moment and paid attention to bodies and attitudes of soldiers operating under voluntary or forced control. The sound, which seems to be an acoustic expression of the word ‘irony’ and the chanting of soldiers who hope to become a united movement, could not express these ‘aliens’ called soldiers any better. The wide screen, which is 10 meters wide by 2.8 meters tall, accentuates the individual soldiers’ bodies by maximizing the formality of a group of soldiers standing in straight rows, while paradoxically proving how their individual characteristics are stripped from them.

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