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 Impossible Dialogue
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관리자 2014-09-17 21:26
Mixed media
900x1800x70cm
Impossible Dialogue
Never-Ending Popular Song
It is because that table is titled <Impossible Conversation> and a table for its base seems exhausted and a conversation made there is exhaustingly nonsense. One says that the earth is square or polygon and another who says the earth is round fell on the floor, which is our daily lives. There are so many different opinions for all concepts, for example, happiness. To someone's eye, one lives the most unhappy life but the one says he is happy.
I newly made and submitted this when I had an exhibition in Plateau. Looking back on something important, we realize 'The conversation didn't go well.' That is because of the frame of one's own concept. Sometimes, it seems there are modern and medieval people are mixed. It is fascinating even though their conversations are impossible. In other words, there are different sets of common sense. However, it also confuses us whether it is considerate to respect or it is proper to point out wrong common sense. The table makes such confusion and everything is done within the table, which makes the leg of the table exhausted and even broken. I think this work would touch Korean planners.