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.
2014 Thinker, December #3
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Toilet paper, Pepto-bismol, Wood
44x36x111inches
Thinker, December #3
Legend of Post-Colonialism
We regard Rodin's <Thinker> as a representative symbol of western art but I suddenly realized that actually, I'd never thought why it is important, what it tells us and what meaning it has. It was shocking.
In other words, I found that I haven't understood or worked on art in my own way even though I studied it a lot. It was as if I ate like a horse and food was all good but I didn't digest them at all but only felt bloated. I think I've used toilet paper like 50,000 or 60,000 rolls. Making a sculpture of Pepto Bismol, I think it took like 30,000 or 40,000 bottles. Toilet paper was soaked in more than 30,000 or 40,000 bottles of digestive medicine and paper sculpture called paper mache was made that way.