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The Fifth Gwangju Biennale will break
with past hierarchies which divided the exhibitions into Main Exhibition
and Special Exhibition. Rather, it will be divided into Theme Exhibition
and Sites, each one located on a special site.
Theme Exhibition will be a cultural production space, a new way for
the team of participating artist and national or international Viewer-participant
to express more clearly their artwork organization and the direction
of the exhibition. The sixty couples of participating artists and
Viewer-participants will exchange ideas on the essential components
of the cultural environment implicated in the subject and, by amplifying
vital cultural echoes, present a visual spectrum of the culture of
art and an array of brilliant imaginations.
The exhibition spaces will be filled with rich visual installations
of projects expressing cultural and social issues, in a broad aesthetic
context, as well as a variety of activities of the Viewer-participants.
Their works will present phenomenological parallels and an active
or subdued aesthetic apparatus, while functioning as a flexible space
for discussion. They will serve as examples of a new theory of the
spectator inspired by the Biennale. At the same time, ten or so individual
artists will share three exhibition spaces, where, by stretching to
the maximum the effect of exhibition installation according to the
concept and composition of each space, they will energize the whole
of the exhibition.
Finally, there will be a space reserved for "The Club",
a complex cultural space where installations and videos will alternate,
and where jazz and Latin dance, events large and small, seminars,
and much more will take place. |
The First Exhibition
Space will be a place
for a profound look at a
host of phenomena,
including a reversal of
the historical discord of cultural reality, clashes between the industrial
society and the existence of fragmented lives throughout the world,
all of which will justify its theme of dust as a metaphor of struggle
for progression of life rather than regression and disappearance. |
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The participants in this
exhibition will visually
express the concept of a
drop of water, the one
that catalyzes the meeting of the inorganic bodies at the source of
life, the one that vehicles communication as a cleansing, cure, and
rebirth of fragments of the spectrum of lives -- of subordination
and detachment, of reversal and reconciliation, of movement, reconstitution,
and so on. |
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The participants in this
space will redefine the
norms of our limited
aesthetic criticism and
of the oppression of types of globalization and the global environment.
They will present the hopes of individuals and groups, by capturing
the order and power of nature, by trying, in their artworks, to return
them to an essential order, and by transcending the custom of merely
accepting the art production. |
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Whereas the First,
Second, and Third
Gallery Spaces are
composed of artworks
by the teams of artist
and Viewer-participant, the Fourth Exhibition Space is meant for aesthetic
games, where meaning is created by the participation of the general
public. It will be a place for a variety of festivities combining
the familiar and the unfamiliar, in harmony with both specialization
and popularization. It will be a cultural catharsis space, putting
in play all five of our senses. It will be a place where event and
exhibition meet and overcome past biennale spectators' isolation and
distance. And it will be, finally, a place for performances, where
a host of genres come together in harmony. |
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