[oberlist] 8th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale - call for applications

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Call for applications :: 8th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale -- Gongju, 
South Korea


Following the accelerated events of our world, it seems that the 
decisive task for the 21st century will be the radical transformation of 
perspectives and values. We live in a time when new ideologies are born 
that propose solutions to the challenges within this new millennium. 
More and more of us feel the need to disengage from the idea of 
continuous expansion and by adopting a longer-term perspective, to 
sketch out a sensible, sustainable vision of the future within a new 
ideological framework. In this quest for recourse, naturally, artists 
also seek and undertake an altered role. Many of them consider total 
life or nature as the scene of their activity instead of within a 
specific creative industry. The strengthening of public art, street art, 
and the environmental art genres reveal the growing wishes of artists to 
move their work beyond a primarily gallery-based system. Thus, the 
artists working in natural environment are often led by the intension to 
improve society. While doing so, they inevitably resonate with a growing 
vision of an altered social, economic, and cultural environment. While 
entrusting the world’s aggressive rearrangement to the engineers of 
urban centres, they nevertheless relish time spent in a natural 
environment distant from the organized areas of geo-cultural politics, 
the „small gestures” and the meditative experience of the process of 
creation.

In the light of the above mentioned thoughts, the participants of GNAB 
create artworks that follow a path opposed to the usual 20th century 
methods of nature-culture integration. Instead of migrating from rural 
spaces to the urban, they now create pieces while working within nature 
itself. Therefore, the aim of the GNAB 2018 is titled NATURE-PRIVATE 
SPACE-SHELTER. Within this title is an analysis of the confines of 
architecture and fine art and to experience the connection between these 
areas. As a secondary focus, the event aims to promote the creation of 
artworks that use the discourse about the context of the natural 
environment and a created personal space as their subject matter.

The Biennale’s organizers expect to receive the application of artists, 
architects, groups who are interested in nature; specifically in the 
problems posed by the use of organic materials within created sculptural 
and architectural spaces. Strong applications will be from those whose 
realized work is an important, cohesive act within what nature itself 
provides.

These key words give the participants the opportunity to expand the 
coherence of the perception of space, human scale and ecologically 
proportional systems and the relationship of natural materials and 
techniques.

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_NATURE - the concept of Nature Art_
The ’sign’ created in nature strengthens specific natural formations and 
the unique character of a given landscape. Their connection is unalterable.
Additionally, the piece cannot be interpreted beyond its given 
environmental context.
The creators should confine themselves to a minimal use of machines when 
designing and crafting their artwork.
The artists should mainly use natural materials found within the local, 
given environment.
When considering the durability of the structure, the artist can use 
materials such as steel. However, if the artist desires other non-local 
inorganic or organic materials, it should be discussed with the biennale 
committee.
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__PRIVATE SPACE - the concept of the piece’s interior space_
Space is an emptiness stretching in three directions that is surrounded 
by matter on all sides. Space itself is not even perceptible. Rather, it 
is the spatial order, ’spatiality’ of the material – binding masses and 
surfaces - tracing out space which is the artwork itself.
Space and human scale are closely related. Space becomes space via its 
human scale.
It is possible to move within space and this movement is not only for 
practical purposes.
By moving around in the inner space of the artwork we can understand the 
characteristics and atmosphere of the given space and we experience the 
surfaces and masses forming it. We also get to feel its materiality and 
its impact on us.
By moving around and having both physical and possibly spiritual 
experiences in a space it becomes a both personal and intimate.

_SHELTER_
This constructed private space promotes a sense of security, and beckons 
the user to stay and ponder.
The atmosphere of this inner space, the aesthetical expressive force of 
its structure, the rhythm of the masses and surfaces enclosing it 
provide the value and quality of the artwork. It can therefore be 
interpreted as a classical work of art when viewed from the outside.


István Erőss
artistic director of GNAB 2018


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/P//lease find the detailed information below:/
http://www.natureartbiennale.org/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=92&lang=eng

/Deadline/: November 15th, 2017


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*KOREAN NATURE ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION - YATOO*
32530, 98 Yeonmisangogae-gil, Useong-myeon, Gongju-si, Chungnam, Korea
Tel.  041-853-8828   Fax.  041-856-4336   E-mail. yatoo la hanmail.net


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