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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.


2022 Sung Hwan Kim

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관리자 2022-12-16 15:08

작가Sung Hwan Kim

Hair Is a Piece of Head, 2021, Single-channel video, color, stereo, sound, 23min. Commissioned by Gwangju Biennale Foundation.

Tip of a Spherical Form (Cupped Fingers), 2021, Aluminum and steel, 84×243×76.2cm. Originally created for Sung Hwan Kim’s Temper Clay at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021.

Tip of a Spherical Form (ear), 2021, Aluminum and steel, 61×200×60cm. Originally created for Sung Hwan Kim’s Temper Clay at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021.

Second Seat For One Person, 2021, Painted wood, silver leaf, and aluminum, 114×112×68cm. Originally created for Sung Hwan Kim’s Temper Clay at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021.

They Carried the Heads of Theirs, 2022, Digital print mounted on dibond, pencil, wood, primer, water-based poster marker, nail, 105×94.5×10cm.

O ka hua o ke kōlea aia i Kahiki The Egg of the Plover Is Laid in a Foreign Land, 2022, Pencil, acrylic paint, water-based poster paint, oil-based poster paint, tracing paper, bristol paper, mounting board, transparent film, aluminum tape, hinging tape, document repair tape, doublesided tape, acetate tape, glue, 119×114×8.5cm.

A Metaphor Carries Another Metaphor, 2020 – 2021, Pencil, acrylic paint, water-based poster paint, oil-based poster paint, tracing paper, bristol paper, mounting board, transparent film, aluminum tape, hinging tape, document repair tape, double-sided tape, acetate tape, glue, 119×114×9.8cm.

Live Photo Cases: Standing with Silver Streamers, 2022, Digital print, mat board, anti-reflective glass, 44×44×4cm.

Live Photo Cases: Ironwood Is a Whistling Tree, 2022, Digital print, KAPA aluminum board, chipboard, glue, 42×42×4cm.

Live Photo Cases: Unidentified Woman Standing Next to a Tree, Photographed Photograph at Palama Settlement Archive, 2022, Digital print in dibond, 128.5×184×6cm.

Live Photo Cases: George Helm, founder, Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana, playing the Waikīkī Shell at a fundraiser for Kōkua Hawai‘i, 1973, 2022, Photograph: Ed Greevy, Text: Haunani-Kay Trask, Gelatin silver print, transparent film, mat board, glass, 96×74×3.5cm.

Live Photo Cases: Save Our Surf(SOS) Demonstration at Wāwāmalu, on O‘ahu‘s East End, 1972, 2022, Photograph: Ed Greevy, Text: Haunani-Kay Trask, Gelatin silver print, transparent film, mat board, glass, 92×74×3.5cm.

Live Photo Cases: Korean Waterfront Worker in Korea, Photograph of a Photograph by R. J. Baker, Bishop Museum Archives, Kalihi/ Pālama, 2019, Hair Is a Piece of Head 머리는 머리의 부분, Book, p. 86 – 87, 2022, Digital pigment print on gray adhesive pp matte, 232×330cm.

Courtesy of the Artist (Photo: Suin Kwon)

 

This work is part of Sung Hwan Kims series A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (started in 2017), a collection of videos, books, and installations based on the artists own research on Koreans who immigrated to the United States in the early twentieth century. The primary location of the series is Hawaii, which for many years was the gateway to the United States for Koreans and other immigrants who crossed the Pacific Ocean. Koreans first emigrated to Hawaii in 1903, to replace Japanese workers who went on strike. He then expands the story by introducing the oral histories of Korean picture brides, who came to Hawaii to get married without ever having met their prospective husbands. Here, Hawaii is both a place and a concept, as each island in Hawaii holds a unique trace of chronologies, formed by respective volcanic outbursts from floating tectonic plates. As such, Hawaii is also a drifting land. The story of the Korean migrants who came to Hawaii in this period is not confined only to their own circumstances, but is allied to the fate of kānaka maoli (native Hawaiians). Using the allegory of the shipwreck seen from terra firma, Kim connects the drifters to the drifting land. Kim records this process by exploring different possible structures and images that may historicize his findings. For the biennale, together with several of his earlier works, Kim created the new photo installation Live Photo Cases, including Unidentified woman standing next to a tree, photographed photograph at Palama Settlement Archive, which records the artists process of documenting the Palama Settlement Archive, which was a medical and educational center for Koreans in Hawaii in the early twentieth century and continues to be for the newly immigrated ; Ironwood Is a Whistling Tree, a photograph of a widespread species of tree introduced to the Hawaiian archipelago, which, when wind-blown, whistle; and Standing with Silver Streamers, which captures the joy created by activating metaphor as a vehicle, boring through his confined room to a space called reality. Kim juxtaposes the Korean diaspora with key historical moments in Hawaii in two frames in his collection, comprising photographs and texts created respectively by Ed Greevy and Haunani-Kay Trask. Greevy is a photographer who documented the Hawaiian sovereignty movement (such as Save Our Surf and Aloha ‘Āina) and Trask is a Hawaiian independence activist and educator. One photograph shows George Helm, an activist and musician, who went missing while trying to protect Kahoolawe Island. This island was infamously dubbed Target Island, for its repeated use for US Navy artillery training, notably as a virtual bombing site of the Korean Peninsula during the Korean War in the 1950s.

The juxtaposition of metaphorical images and documentary photographs reconfigures existing cognitive and psychological boundaries. The subjects in photographs throughout history have always positioned and corrected their bodies and expressions, as well as the decor around themselves. They sometimes stand next to, or carry, both live and dead trees in the photographs. These photographs then remain as a record of both biotic and abiotic beings through which historicity traverses.

There are three metal objects in the exhibition space: one was pounded by hand, another was pressed by a mill and then welded, and a third was inserted into a seat made of wood. These objects of ambiguous function are free from specific syntactic classifications. By juxtaposing such objects (which are difficult to index or designate, and thus escape collection) with the narrative, the artist questions whether the grammar of loss can be manifested in objects with scale and dimension. Since being introduced at the Gwangju Biennale in 2021, Kims A Record of Drifting Across the Sea installation series has been expanded with repetitions and variations, including elements of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2021 and at the Honolulu Triennial in 2022, navigating by the chart of objects and history that emerge when clear boundaries are omitted. Kims vessel allows us to see ourselves as the rising wave of the Greater Pacific in a larger context of history. At the end of the exhibition, the second video work in this seriesA Record of Drifting Across the Sea: Chapter 2 (working title)will be screened for the first time at the Yeongdo Outdoor Cinema.

 
Sung Hwan Kim

Sung Hwan Kim uses film and video, drawing, sound, architecture, and literature, as well as his own writing, as part of his installations, performances, radio plays, and books. He often encompasses tropes of biography, science fiction, folklore, myth, and collective memories in his work to render metaphors that relate to historical and social issues. Kim has been working on a multi-part research work A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (2017-) rooted in his exploration of the histories of Korean immigration to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. This project was born of a series of observations about the current discourse around global migration in contrast to a notable lack of representation of those who had migrated in the past. His solo exhibitions include Sung Hwan Kims Temper Clay (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021) and And who has not dreamed of violence? و منو الما حلم بعنف؟ (daadgalerie, Berlin, 2018). He has participated in group exhibitions including the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022 and 57th Venice Biennale (2017).

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