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Program

Undercurrents-Public Encounters

Children’s Workshops

Instructions from the Sea

• Date 2025. 9. 27. – 11. 1., Every Saturday, 12:00, 15:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), inside Raul Walch, Who Owns the Wind?
• Participants 8 – 13 years old children
• Participation 10 people
• Content An open-air workshop inviting children to explore Dadaepo Beach as a living, breathing landscape — through playful artistic instructions that spark ecological imagination. An activity offering children the opportunity to discover the natural environment of Dadaepo through artistic works and suggestions proposed by artists reconnecting to the Earth.

Guided Tour Program

Undercurrents Walks: Art and Nature

• Date 2025. 9. 27. – 11. 2., Every Saturday, Sunday, Public Holiday, 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, 17:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach Park Information Center
• Content A guided journey through the living landscape of Dadaepo Beach, where visitors encounter artworks woven into the rhythms of sand, wind, and tide.

Discussions & Conversations

RoundtableI Plastic Everywhere: From Local Harm to Global Pact

• Date 2025. 9. 28. (Sun), 15:00 – 16:20
• Venue Front yard of the Former Molwoon Coffeeshop
• Content Plastic has created a new kind of habitat—the plastisphere—altering marine ecosystems and entangling life forms in synthetic cycles. This panel explores how plastic pollution reshapes oceanic relations and what political, scientific, and civic responses are emerging in its wake. With Busan as the recent host of the INC-5.1 negotiations toward a legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, the discussion reflects on local responsibilities within global frameworks. How can visibility lead to action? And what cultural and political shifts are needed to turn awareness into enforceable change?

RoundtableII Plastic Acts: Can Art Trigger Change?

• Date 2025. 9. 28. (Sun), 16:30 – 18:20
• Venue Front yard of the Former Molwoon Coffeeshop
• Content In a world saturated with plastic, what role can artists play in transforming apathy into engagement? Together, panelists explore how artistic practice and direct environmental engagement can reframe polluted environments as spaces for imagination, encounter, and reflection. Creative gestures could unsettle resignation, and aesthetic experiences might open possibilities for unexpected solidarities or influence social norms and policy. The discussion opens space to consider how art and environmental action might translate ecological grief into shared awareness and forms of collective response.

Keynotes & Roundtablelll Entangled Worlds - Conversations Across Disciplines

• Date 2025. 10. 2. (Thu), 14:00 – 16:00
• Venue Café Venga (9, Morundae 2-gil, Saha-gu, Busan)
• Content The subtitle of Sea Art Festival 2025, Waves Walking on the Water, evokes the layered movements of human, non-human, and elemental bodies across and beneath the sea’s surface. Undercurrents arise not only from what lies hidden below but also through entanglements of the visible and unseen, the floating and submerged. Against this backdrop, the program asks how art and science together can serve as a vessel for revealing narratives of resilience and exploitation. Bringing leading Anthropocene researchers together with curators and artists, it features three keynote lectures, a curatorial introduction, and a concluding roundtable, opening a shared space for dialogue and reflection across disciplines.

RoundtableIV To Build or to Care: Dadaepo’s Future at a Crossroads

• Date 2025. 10. 3. (Fri), 15:00 – 17:00
• Venue Co-working Space, Hongti Art Center 1st floor
• Content Amid renewed development projects threatening the fragile balance of Dadaepo Beach, this roundtable addresses the complex interplay between urban growth, ecological memory, and community agency. Set within the site of the Sea Art Festival, where tidal rhythms and collective gestures converge, the discussion invites reflection on how to defend the commons—not just as land or water, but as shared ways of relating and coexisting.

Workshops

Antje Majewski, Collaborative Painting of Early Organisms

• Date 2025. 9. 27. – 11. 2., Every Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 13:00 – 17:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), in front of the Playground
• Content Join a hands-on painting workshop where participants of all ages are invited to explore the earliest forms of life through art and storytelling. Guided by a trained local team, this workshop offers a space for creativity, learning, and dialogue by the sea.

Raul Walch, Kite-Flying Workshop: Who Owns the Wind?

• Date 2025. 9. 27.(Sat) – 9. 28. (Sun), 16:00 – 18:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), inside Raul Walch, Who Owns the Wind?
• Content Discover the power of wind and flight through a playful kite-flying workshop open to all ages. Inspired by local birdlife and their unique flight patterns, participants will let fly specially designed kites together, creating a shared moment between nature, art, and community.

Marie Griesmar, Looking at Art Underwater

• Date ① Underwater Observation for Beginners2025. 9. 28. (Sun), 10. 11. (Sat), 10. 25. (Sat), 14:00 – 15:00
• Date② Underwater Observation for Divers 2025. 9. 27. (Sat), 10. 4. (Sat), 10. 18. (Sat), 14:00 – 15:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(East), in front of Marie Griesmar, The Green between Waters
• Content Join a guided snorkeling session to explore underwater ceramic sculptures inspired by plankton — the tiny, vital organisms that form the base of ocean life. Led by a trained facilitator, this activity invites you to experience the invisible ecosystems of Dadaepo Beach in a new and engaging way.

Mathias Kessler and Ahmet Civelek, A Weaving Workshop: From Plastic Trash to Carpet

• Date 2025. 9. 27.(Sat) – 9. 28. (Sun), 16:00 – 18:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), in front of Mathias Kessler and Ahmet Civelk, Making Something out of Nothing
• Content Create your own plastic carpet. In this hands-on workshop, the artists will demonstrate how to repurpose discarded materials by hand, inspired by traditional weaving techniques. Participants are invited to discover the hidden value of plastic waste through this creative act, knot by knot.

Uriel Orlow, Reading to Plants

• Date 2025. 9. 28. (Sun), 14:00 – 15:30, 10. 18. (Sat), 16:30 – 18:00, 10. 19. (Sun), 14:00 – 15:30
• Venue Dadaepo Beach Park Lawn Plaza
• Content A special reading program will be presented in collaboration with Bibliotheca Busan. In a space where the language of books meets the breath of plants, discover a unique moment that awakens unexpected senses.

OMIJA, DADAEPO ROLL Rolling Contest

• Date 2025. 10. 8. (Wed), 14:00 – 18:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), in front of OMIJA, DADAEPO ROLL
• Content Join forces to roll the massive DADAEPO ROLL and experience the dynamic harmony between people and nature. Crafted from natural materials collected along the Nakdong River, this giant rolling sphere scatters seeds across the ground, playfully connecting joy with the cycles of life. Through this relay of teamwork and creativity, discover a one-of-a-kind moment where art, nature, and community come together.

Performance

Anna Anderegg, Silver Boom

• Date 2025. 9. 27. (Sat) – 9. 28. (Sun), 12:00 – 13:00
• Venue From Dadaepo Port Station Exit 4 to Dadaepo Beach Station Exit 4 (via Subway Line 1), then to Dadaepo Beach Park Information Center
• Content Silver Boom is a site-responsive performance led by local women aged 60+, celebrating their embodied wisdom in public space. Taking place twice, it moves through Dadaepo Harbor Station, local streets, and beach—inviting new encounters with the female body.

Paula Proaño Mesías, A Thousand Eyes Beneath the Tide

• Date 2025. 9. 27. (Sat), 16:00 – 16:15
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), in front of Paula Proaño Mesías, A Thousand Eyes Beneath the Tide
• Content Conceived as a playful sequence with two local performers, reimagines human-multispecies relations—inviting audiences to unlearn extractive habits, envision reciprocal cohabitation, and rethink kinship beyond the human.

Seba Calfuqueo, Flowing like Waterfalls

• Date 2025. 9. 27. (Sun), 18:30 – 19:00
• Venue Dadaepo Beach(West), in front of Seba Calfuqueo, Guilt, TRAY TRAY KO
• Content Flowing Like Waterfalls is a 20-minute performance that approached the power of water's fluidity as a means to explore the body, gender, sexuality, and the relationship of water with life, forests, and ecosystems.