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.
2012 Detective Strike Synchronization
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Detective Strike Synchronization
“A detective is hired to face an affair of others and concentrates on the case to solve it.” (the first sentence in a detective diary.)
Private eye C who felt tiredness from his job for some time was hired by H to find ‘ private detective P’. Tiredness that C had felt came from the social environment that surrounds him and from personal relationship that he had missed by focusing on cases. Disappeared private detective wasn’t free from his role in a society and tried to hand over what he had accomplished so far to someone and tried to leave behind everything for a new life. P bought a plane ticket with a fee he got from the last case.
Unreality in the role of detective causes a certain stare and concentration in a boundary of unsolved events. Artist who was into the role of a detective is eventually influenced by conflicts between reality and unreality. People in Korea are immersed in money, family and marriage, which are considered as the most crucial elements for living in Korea. P had tried to work out the trouble happened to him and tried to straight things out but soon realized that he was rejected by everything that surrounds him. So a solution he has come up with is lifting off the heaviness of the situation by determining the direction of rejection by himself: Detective P who has left to foreign country and testimony and statements of air that surrounds the detective. Chasing P, C is immersed in P, and identifies himself with P.