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2nd Pusan Biennial, Korea, 2000 \u00abLeaving The Island\u00bb<\/h3>\n

Co-curators: Young Chul Lee, Rosa Mart\u00ednez, Hou Hanru.<\/strong>
\nOctober 2 – November 27, 2000. Pusan, Korea<\/p>\n

Selected Artists<\/strong>:\u00a0Adel Abdessemed (Algeria),\u00a0Kyu-chul Ahn (Korea),\u00a0Asaoka Akane (Japan),\u00a0Ana Laura Al\u00e1ez (Spain),\u00a0Helena Almeida (Portugal),\u00a0Francis Alys (Mexico),\u00a0Ghada Amer (Egypt),\u00a0Katerina Apostolidou (Greece),\u00a0Planet Art (Netherlands),\u00a0Sylvie Blocher (France),\u00a0Christophe Charles (France),\u00a0Shaoxiong Chen (China),\u00a0Fei Cao (China),\u00a0Alexandre Da Cunha (Brazil),\u00a0Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (Denmark, Norway),\u00a0Michel Fran\u00e7ois (Belgium),\u00a0Hiroshi Fuji (Japan),\u00a0Wineke Gartz (Netherlands),\u00a0Kendell Geers (South Africa),\u00a0Federico Guzm\u00e1n (Spain),\u00a0Jin Ham (Korea),\u00a0Carl M von Hausswolff (Sweden),\u00a0Wee-young Heo (Korea),\u00a0Solrun Hoaas (Australia),\u00a0Myung-seop Hong (Korea),\u00a0Soon-myung Hong (Korea),\u00a0Ken Ikeda (Japan),\u00a0Jae-whan Joo & Young-kook Park (Korea),\u00a0Simone Aaberg Kaern (Denmark),\u00a0So-ra Kim (Korea),\u00a0Elke Krystufeck (Austria),\u00a0Surasi Kusolwong (Thailand),\u00a0Kyupi Kyupi (Japan),\u00a0Soo-kyung Lee (Korea),\u00a0So-mi Lee (Korea),\u00a0Jung-ran Lee (Korea),\u00a0Ken Lum (Canada),\u00a0Zwelethu Mthethwa (South Africa),\u00a0Aydan Murteazoglu (Turkey),\u00a0Nikos Navridis (Greece),\u00a0Veronica Nicholson (Ireland),\u00a0Honor\u00e9 d’O (Belgium),\u00a0Ebru \u00d6zsecen (Turkey),\u00a0Jae-hyun Park (Korea),\u00a0Dan Perjovschi (Rumania),\u00a0Steven Rand (USA),\u00a0Sam Samore (USA),\u00a0B\u00fclent Sangar (Turkey),\u00a0Anne Seagrave (Ireland),\u00a0Ene-Liis Semper (Estonia),\u00a0Young Shi (China),\u00a0Myung-eun Shin (Korea),\u00a0Jeung-eun Shon (Korea),\u00a0Santiago Sierra (Spain),\u00a0Ross Sinclair (United Kingdom),\u00a0Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria),\u00a0Grazia Toderi (Italy),\u00a0Mar\u00eda Z\u00e1rraga (Spain),\u00a0Guogu Zheng (China),\u00a0Tiehal Zhou (China)<\/p>\n

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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK<\/strong>:
\nThe title \u00abLeaving the Island\u00bb refers both to the desire and the need of making political, aesthetical and existencial borders more fluid and porous. Geographically, islands are pieces of land surrounded by the sea, and they are usually conceived as isolated worlds. In the human imaginary, islands have been mythical allegories of dreamed paradises, places for adventure and locations to rest after difficult journeys. But without human beings speaking about them, islands would be mute, silent pieces of rock and sand. Like human beings, islands are physical, economical and spiritual geographies. Water is the matter that sets the distance between islands and at the same time it is the medium that needs to be traversed to reach those distant realities. It is a frontier and a means of communication.
\nArtworks have long been seen as islands that condense meaning and beauty. Today the notion of the commodified art object linked to capitalistic ideologies is put into question and art is becoming a means to create new situations and to connect simbolically different individuals and communities. The sea is a powerful metaphore of a fluid and changing medium. Artists can then be seen as producers of deep streams or superficial movements of the waters. Art can be a tool to create new ways of navigation.
\nA new space of confrontation, negotiation and exchange between different cultures is hence created. It allows us to explore fundamental and urgent questions from aspiration to a better world in a new millennium to everyday violence, from social progress to new conflicts between classes, from globalisation to small events in life.
\nThe three curators of the show – Young Chul Lee, Hou Hanru and Rosa
\nMartinez- have taken into account the maritim character of the city of
\nPusan as a laborious and rich harbour where different kinds of trade take place. Relating this to the above mentioned need to erase aesthetical borders and to provoke new interchanges, they have decided to integrate their thoughts, their visions and their passions for different international artists with the goal of creating a unique mosaic in which the frontiers of who has selected whom are erased. By joining their forces, they are creating a temporary archipelago in which the artists, like floating islands, offer to the public their understandings of a very fast changing present.
\nIn the context of an increasingly globalized world where the power of the media is commodifing even ideas and attitudes, \u00abLeaving the Island\u00bb wants to update the utopian idea of connecting art and life, and it expresses the will of shortening the distance that separates art from other spheres of reality. The modernist glorification of the autonomy of art is not seen anymore as a sign of power but as an evidence of its loneliness. The idea of originality is no longer connected to the individual inspiration of a \u00abgenius\u00bb but to the stablisment of collaborative networks of critical interchange. The meaning and the function of art are being reinvented in relation to the last scienctific, anthropological and technological developements, as well as in connection to the global economies that make cities compete among them.<\/p>\n

We conceive exhibitions as open zones and interrelated systems. This is why we hope that the show \u00abLeaving the Island\u00bb makes of Pusan a meaningful place where the artists and the public share an atmosphere of aesthetical innovation and ethical concerns; where they can interchange ideas, emotions and sensations, and where they can understand a little bit better contemporary social, ethnical, religious and economical contradictions. Like this, maybe the different islands become peninsulas related to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

Young Chul Lee, Rosa Mart\u00ednez, Hou Hanru.<\/strong><\/p>\n