Park, Byoung Uk

Concept of Terminus
……………………………………………….Park, Byoung-Uk ( Nine Dragon Heads )

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.

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.

My 'Public Art Project' prepared in Terminus Project 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 Dunedin, 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.