At Sea Art Festival, art rises from Busan's tides

Since its inception in 1987, the Sea Art Festival in Busan has embraced the port city’s coastal topography, transforming its shores into a meeting ground between nature and contemporary art. This year’s edition unfolds where the Nakdong River, the country’s longest, meets the sea. Its main stage, Dadaepo Beach, is a landscape shaped by the collision of currents. To artistic directors Kim Keum-hwa and Bernard Vienat, it is a site of ceaseless creation and erosion, a place where “new ecological and cultural narratives are continuously generated.” Under the theme “Undercurrents: Waves Walking on the Water,” the biennale has gathered 46 site-specific works by 23 artists and collectives. These outdoor installations chart a journey through Busan, from a former incineration plant to a disused seaside cafe and to restored wetlands. In these unique spaces, pieces unfold that seem to breathe with the tide. For “Sonic Drift,” Marco Barotti plunged into the waters off Busan's coast to capture the hidden acoustics of marine life. Blended with the region’s age-old fishing chant,Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times