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.
2006 Welcome to Busan
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2. Marriott Hotel Residence Program chooses ‘hotel’ as a place where an artist performs her preexisting artist residence program. A guest room in Marriott Hotel becomes a studio of the artist. During her stay in the hotel, the artist formulates and progresses the plan and ultimately produces the final work. These guest room studios are open not only to the guests but to the general public for them to enjoy and appreciate art.
The seaside road is the border which divides Haeundae Beach from the city. The most outstanding symbol of this separation is the enormous number of hotels alongside the road. Into this symbolic separation the artist metaphorically puts the division of the ‘art for art’s sake’ from the ordinary, and expresses the interaction of art through ‘hotel’.
This program introduces a new form of art through combining itself with the most popular cultural-artistic-event in Busan Biennale, and with the new alternative of contemporary art system, the Residence Program.