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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.


2022 Hwayeon Nam

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작가Hwayeon Nam
Your Mouth is a Little House, 2022, Mixed media, Dimension variable. Assistant: Hwang Hyo Duck
 
Your Mouth is a Little House is a sculptural work which integrates residual materials which were used to for spatial composition in the rehearsal of You Only Live Twice at Pier 1, with the leftover branches of nesting place of the pigeons that once inhabited the abandoned space.
 
Hwayeon Nam

b. 1979, Gwangju, South Korea
Lives in Seoul, South Korea

Hwayeon Nam has focused her attention on the existential contradictions of the choreography predicated on performativity and absence, which research can provoke. On this basis, she has directed ongoing attention to the inscrutable aspects of time and temporary intervention in them, as well as precariousness and differential potential of presence and existence. Through solo exhibitions such as Time Mechanics (Arko Art Center, Seoul, 2015) and Abdominal Routes (Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, 2019) and group exhibitions like the 56th Venice Biennale (2015), she has presented her explorations of phenomena in which recorded time arrives in the present in new ways through different rhythms and cycles, including human beings, nature, and history. In 2012, she began a multi-year research project tracing the history of modern dancer Seung-hee Choi (19111969) and archival material on her work; this was subsequently broadened into an effort involving the writing of polyphonic histories and the relationship between performances and the performance archive. Related work has been presented at Festival Bo:m (2012), the Korean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Mind Stream (Art Sonje Center, Seoul, 2020), and Performance/Documentation/Presentation (Lunds Konsthall, Lund, 2020).

 

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