Curriculum Vitae
¹Úº´¿í Park Byoung Uk
Yesol 204, Hakbong 634-4,
Banpo, Gongju-shi.
Chungnam . KOREA
http;//www.9dragonheads.com
@mail : 9dragonheads@korea.com
@mail : 99park@gmail.com
Tel: +82 10 3934 8888
Park Byoung-Uk's work, at the edge of installation and performance, is often a hommage to nature or the environment, for him the embrace was a two-way process. Like many indigenous cultures around the world, Park seeks to animate nature by engaging with her as an active participant. Often his works seem shamanistic. For him these performances lie at the edge of art and ritual, as they are a means for communing with the divine through nature. Since 1996, Park has organized the annual international environment art symposium artist called Nine Dragon Heads.
Performance – Environment Report ¡®Daechong-Lake¡± 1986/1987
Recent Exhibitions ( 2005~2011 )
2011 Nine Dragon Heads 2011 Chamagodo – Yunam-Tibet- Himalaya Mt.-Nepal-Seoul
2011 Art of LOVE ¡°Sarajevo Winter¡± - National Theater, Sarajevo Turkish Culture Center. B&H
2010 Nomadic Party – Gobi Desert, Taklamakan Desert. Tian Shan Mt. Arko Seoul. KOREA
Artisterium – National Museum. Tbilisi . GEORGIA
2009 Nomadic Arts Residency – Gobi Desert . Ulanbataar (National Gallery. Mongolia )
Organic Art Life / 25th Jubilee ¡° Sarajevo Winter¡± Sarajevo. Bosnia & Hercegobina
2008 Bridge. Gallery ES Konsept. Istanbul. TURKEY
Meeting Downhill,. Quartair Gallery, Den Haag, HOLLAND
2007 Encumbered, Piramid Art Center. Istanbul. TURKEY
Magic Garden, Kunstforum, Tirol, AUSTRIA
2006 Change Concept, DMZ & JSA North KOREA
Dawn Light, Gosford City Gallery, New Castle University, AUSTRALIA
Terminus , Haulashore Island (Nelson) & Duniden Harbor, NEW ZEALAND
Art in the Forest, Sauz de Oulx, Torino, ITALIA
2005 VIA 8#, Paris, FRANCE
MMAC, Mishima, JAPAN
PARK & Old House, Zaostrog, CROATIA
Kunst der Schine, Innsbrucke, AUSTRIA
Toolwood, Munich, GERMANY
Lecture
2009 2nd Artisterium – Contemporay Art ( National Museum Georgia. Tbilisi )
Topic : Nine Dragon Heads Activiies
8th Istanbul Biennale ( Bilgi University. Istanbul )
Topic : Globalisim & Multi-Culturalism
2005 Dawn Light Symposium ( New Castle Univsersity. Australia )
Topic : Recent Works of Nine Dragon Heads
2004 Terminus Open Air Symposium ( Dunedin National Library New Zealand )
Topic : Art & Environment
2003 Korea-Japan Contemporay Art Exhibition ( Fukushima Culture Center. JAPAN )
Topic : Human Nature
Artist Residency
2003 Kunst Halle Krems ( Stiein .Krems . Austria)
2000 Scholss Wichenhoussen (Innsbruck. Tirol)
More information : www.9dragonheads.com/parkbyounguk
Video Still, Performance ¡°Environment Report – Daecheong Lake ¡° 1987
My duties include the public art project linked with the public. I will attempt to create the space more vitally by means of considering the objective, place, spectators' trends and characteristics in order to lead the actual public participation while escaping from the widespread and ill-advised object of spectators and forms of the existing public art.
Furthermore, the contemporary art is performed actively together with the public while narrowing down its emotional distance and it tends to be a participation-oriented exhibition not of exhibition but of the two-way communication in order to raise the understanding of both parties (artist and the public).
By means of using various media and free expression methods prevalent in modern art, the closed private space has an opportunity to come into contact with an experimental and open public space; in the meantime, the exhibition will be a chance for people to recognize creative thought, purification of emotion and the role and necessity of art for the public. There are diverse and complicated interests among the members in a city because an individual interest is more emphasized than the interest of the community in the city. At the same time, every change is reflected in a very sensitive manner in the city.
Especially, there were unbearable changes in the cities where rapid industrialization was done in a short period of time. One of the characteristics that the city has is that people feel that the foundation of their lives is being constantly robbed and there are no humanity and people are alienated from each other. One of the characteristics that the city has is that people feel that the foundation of their lives is being constantly robbed and there are no humanity and people are alienated from each other.
What can art be in such an urban environment? No wonder that it is an important assignment for modern art to create the new role of art that can cope with a new urban environment while overcoming its public image and role. However, as the urban environment gets complex, the tradition concept of art based on exhibition is likely to lose its public features.
This is the reason that many people pay attention to public art in the urban environment. It is obvious that public art is an unfamiliar phrase on the assumption that art has been understood based on the exhibition. Public art is as wide and dynamic as the complexity of urban space and its mobility in its potential.
Performance with people from Duniden. New Zealand 2007
Performance & Installation . City Gallery..Gosford. NSW Australia 2006
Flying Stone- Perfoemnace. Gosford. NSW. Australia 2006
My 'Public Art Project prepared in environment will suggest that one should solve the urban problems with an artistic way based on the aforementioned wide potential of public art. If one is willing to share the values and ideal of the given community through art, one can have an access to approach the problems that the special urban environment has in a community-oriented and democratically through public art because the procedures and compromise that can adjust different interests and thoughts among people in a democratic manner are emphasized in public art. The project, in which the cultural interruption will be performed in the city called is characterized by its true meaning of public image that aims to give respect to the daily lives of the citizens and to connect them with artistic ideal. That is also what people want from art.
Invitation Letter to Penguin – Performance and Installation . Holashore Island, Nelson. New Zealand 2006
Flying Stone- Performance & Installation .Gobi Desert. 2009
Flying Stone - Installation . Prehistorical site. Gobi Desert. Danlanzadgad. 2009
Performance with Children from Gobi Communities. Dalanzadgad Mongloria 2009
Come Ashore – Performace & Video Shooting . Sunyoudo Island. KOREA 2006
Jump into the unknown
Video & Installation .
Jeju Island , U-do island 2007
Jump into the unknown
Video & Installation .
Jeju Island , U-do island 2007
