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.
2018 One Flew Over the Void (Bala Perdida)
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One Flew Over the Void (Bala Perdida), Single channel video projection, color, sound, 11min 30sec, 2005, Courtesy of Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich and the artist
Javier TELLEZ
One Flew Over the Void (Bala Perdida)
Tellez’ One Flew Over the Void (Bala Perdida) of 2005, shown in Busan, literally crosses a divided territory—in this case, that between the US and Mexico. The video documents a parade the artist organized near the border between Tijuana and San Diego. Patients from a local psychiatric hospital, wearing animal masks and holding up signs protesting various injustices, took part in the carnival-like parade, leading to a cannon placed directly on the border. A circus rocket man is then shot over the border into the United States. In the current reality of the Trump administration’s immigration policy at the border, with children held separate from their parents in cages, Tellez transgressive piece again takes on a pressing topicality.