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‘Plans for Management of the Organizing Committee

- Ways for the practicing the efficient management of the Organizing Committee and for the institutionalization of the selecting process of the artistic director’-

Busan Biennale Organizing Committee(the Committee) will hold an academic program under the topic of ‘Plans for Proper Management of the Organizing Committee’ on the 13th of February, 2 P.M., at seminar room C in Busan Design Center.

Opening in the purpose of reestablishing the identity of the Busan Biennale and the directions and new visions in the crisis status that is drastically changing, the main contents of the WorkshopIII was to seek critical evaluations and renovating solutions on the management of the Committee. The details include examining the structure of the Committee and its managing systems, the selecting process of the artistic director, complementing the process at institutional levels and securing financial supports for the proper management.

Together with presentations by 9 speakers who are from Busan Biennale as well as experts in the cultural field, the workshop was a platform in which more concrete plans to be made and realizing roadmaps were discussed to make the Busan Biennale more efficient and stable organization.

The WorkshopIII will be held with two of keynote speakers and their discussions. Professer, Sejun Kim(Sookmyung Women’s University, the previous academic committee of the Busan Biennale) will be in charge of the first keynote presentation of the WorkshopIII. Contributing to the crucial development of the Busan Biennale as a member of the academic committee of the Busan Biennale, Sejun Kim will focus on the management system of the Committee that acts as a skeleton of the Busan Biennale organization under the title of ‘Plans for the Management of the Busan Biennale Organization’. He reviewed the appropriacy of structuring the organic cooperating bodies and proper labor divisions amongst internal organizations such as executing body, legislative body, curatorial team and administrative team and suggested pracitical plans for better structures.

The second speaker, Professor Taeman Choi(Kookmin University, chairman of the board), worked as the artistic director of the Busan Biennale 2004 and is currently chairman of the board, who knows about the management of the Busan Biennale most. Professor Choi examined the selecting process of the artistic director, which would elaborate the specificity and the identity of the Busan Biennale and stabilize the organization, through his presentation, ‘Plans for Institutionalization of the Selecting Process of the Artistic Director’. As Professor Choi emphasized the importance of selecting a proper artistic director from the last WorkshopI, he suggested a few of institutional methods to supplement and stabilize the current structure of selecting the artistic director, which used to be more temporal and contingent.

The invited panels along with the two keynote speakers including Youngmyung Song(the previous associate chairman of the Busan Biennale Organizing Committee), Chairman of the Busan department of the Federations of Artistic and Cultural Organizations of Korea, Tae-ho Lee, professor at Kyunghee University (the artistic director of Busan Sculpture Project in 2006), Changdong Kim, committee of the Visual Art at the Arts Council Korea(the previous academic committee of Busan Biennale), Sukbong Woo from regional creative research division at Busan Development Institute(the previous academic committee), Mikyung Choo, executive director of DaumSociety(long-term development planning researcher at Busan Biennale), Kyounghan Hong, editor of Kyunghyang article(participant of the Workshop I, academic program) and Kyehoon Ha, art critic(speaker at the Symposium 2013).

Meanwhile, the Committee will solve confronting issues by securing concrete plans and by establishing roadmaps for developments of the Busan Biennale as discussed throughout workshops held in last June and October as well as the Symposium 2013. The WorkshopIII, the last event of the ‘Busan Biennale academic program 2013’, will be opened for everyone. If any questions or requests, please contact the exhibition team, 051-507-6765.