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 Untitled 75031
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Wood, cock, met, plaster, iron, chalk
51×61cm (10ea)
Untitled 75031
300x70x25cm
Deers born, paint, chalk
Untitled 1975032
Acrylic on Canvas
130.3x162cm
From An Island-08019
Movement Not Fixed
I presented two works of installation or process titled 'Performance of Chicken' and a work arranging bones of deer to Paris Biennale. They were far from being sophisticated and I paid attention to the fact that thinking changes all the time and there can be unpredictable and changing matters in audience, art, any structure or relationship because nothing is fixed in this world. Still I think that way. A committee member of Paris Biennale showed interest to my work so I could present it at the very center, the best place of the biennale. Galleries and art world in Paris at that time were still too much of modernity so general public didn't have much opportunity to see experimental art. As I showed the unexpected work of mine, they were deeply shocked and my work was nationally broadcast on TV news at the evening of opening day by installing the chicken and talking with Mr. Il Lee.