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.
2022 Mika Rottenberg
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Mika Rottenberg. Spaghetti Blockchain, 2019, Singlechannel video, color, sound, 18min. 14sec.
Through a “surrealistic society” based on reality and imagination, Mika Rottenberg turns a humorous and satirical gaze on the irrationalities of society, including those related to the value of labor, the body and the machine, and the creation of value in the capitalist era. In particular, she addresses issues of gender and labor centered around real and fictional narratives of certain female characters faced with particular physical conditions as they perform simple, repetitive work in a set that artist built herself at actual sites where particular industries have developed.
Rottenberg attempts to connect the seemingly incompatible world with her work Spaghetti Blockchain. The consecutive scenes of the lab at the Large Hadron Collider built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, the mechanical movements of harvest in action at a massive potato field in Maine, US, and a Tuvan throat singer explore the condition of contemporary lives, such as the labor conditions and technologies grounded upon her interest in the new materialism and the material relationship between human and non-human beings. The artist creates a clashing conjunction of various parts of the world and a network of all different impacts to examine how human beings shape and distort matter, revealing the interconnection between mechanical and bodily movements.
Busan Biennale 2022 presents Remote, co-created by Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi during the Covid-19 pandemic as Asia premiere at Yeongdo Outdoor Cinema in October.
b. 1976, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives in New York, USA
Through a “surrealistic society” based in reality and imagination, Mika Rottenberg turns a humorous and satirical gaze on the irrationalities of society, including those related to the value of labor, the body and the machine, and the creation of value in the capitalist era. In particular, she addresses issues of gender and labor by using female characters faced with particular physical conditions as they perform simple, repetitive work. To do this, she visits actual settings where particular industries have developed, building sets there and in her studio, creating narratives of reality and fiction. Recently, her interest has shifted to the new materialism, as she focuses on the material relationships between human and non-human beings. As she repeatedly juxtaposes the movements of tangible and intangible substances with seemingly incompatible places—the vast Steppes, the Large Hadron Collider built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland, enormous potato fields, revolving kaleidoscopes—she examines how human beings shape and distort matter. Her major solo exhibitions include Mika Rottenberg (Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, 2021) and Mika Rottenberg, Kurt-Schwitters-Preis 2019 (Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, 2020), and she also has also taken part in major group exhibitions such as the 12th Taipei Biennial (2020) and the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019).