Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale, the 15th Gwangju Biennale titled Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century, gathers over 70 artists from 30 countries to attempt to map the complexity of the contemporary world.
Disputed borders, anti-migration walls, confinement, social distancing, segregation policies... These seemingly dissimilar topics share a common point, which is space, and its political organization. Space is also a crossroads that connects all emancipatory struggles, from feminism to decolonization and LGBTQ+ rights, as the divison of space is always geopolitical. The main effect of climate change is the emergence of a new topology, a new world map in which carbon dioxide and urban life, desertification and migration, deforestation and social struggles, destruction of animal habitats and vegetal invasions, have all become brutally interconnected. Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century is an operatic exhibition about the space we live in, from housing to human settlement on the planet.
the 15th Gwangju Biennale intends to recreate the original spirit of pansori, inviting artists who explore contemporary space through their dialogue with surrounding living forms.
