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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.


2016 Point of Contact #2

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관리자 2016-08-23 11:10

작가TAMURA Satoru
TAMURA Satoru, <Point of Contact #2>, Incandescent Lamp, Iron, Motor, Chain, Wire etc, Dimension variable, 2016

TAMURA Satoru
Point of Contact #2

"Point of Contact #2", simply but, is an open, exaggerated switch. It is a device that is designed only to deliver the power from the electricity to light the lamp. The contact point creates a pale spark, incandescent lamps in conjunction with it blink, and it becomes physical proof that there is electrical "contact". The incandescent lamps are only working for the contact that sparks, and the contact that sparks is only to turn on the incandescent lamps. The point of the work is this extremely immediate physical existence, which just goes around and around. Tamura Satoru shows us how to face up to the reality in a conscious or perhaps unconscious manner.
Not everything in the society we live in exists to become something. It is only us, humans, who try hard to find reason to everything and crave them. Humans living in a capitalist society indiscriminately destroy nature in the name of development and growth, shut each other out and create conflicts based on a blind faith that does not recognize differences in race, religion, and society. These are all variations of human desires. The artist does not establish a goal or try to argue something when making a work of art. Nevertheless, his work enables us to reset the lenses through which we view the reality and society as well as reflect on ways of life that exist beyond worldly suffering. 

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