However, at the Busan Biennale, political noise is not an unfortunate sideshow: it is the whole curatorial premise.
The curators, Bahraini-Singaporean artist Amal Khalaf and Brussels-based writer Evelyn Simons, have called their edition of South Korea’s oldest biennale, “Dissident Chorus”.
The biennale seeks to move away from “the ruins of speech” – a breakdown of trust and the divisiveness of conventional communication – echoing Cameroonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh’s title for this year’s Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys”.
In Busan, the focus on sound is meant to be
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