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Founded in 1987 as the pre-Olympics event of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the Sea Art Festival was held annually until 1993. After its eighth edition in 1995, the Sea Art Festival took a five-year hiatus and in 2000, it got integrated with the Busan Biennale (formerly known as PICAF), leading to this day. The Sea Festival has been known to utilize the sea, the natural environment, as exhibition space, showcasing site-specific installations, and in 2006, the exhibition began to manifest the flux and discourse of contemporary art, not limiting itself to only outdoor installations. In 2011, the Sea Art Festival faced its historic juncture when it became an independent exhibition with an intention of establishing a new art brand that is young and experimental.
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By hosting exhibitions by the sea, the Sea Art Festival has grown into a unique and specialized event that reflects the natural environment and conditions of the local area. The Sea Art Festival has been critical in site-specific public art, extending its exhibition space beyond cubic indoor premises to living spaces, where everyday lives are present, and blending the nature and art. Furthermore, through the formal destruction of space and the freedom of being both indoor and outdoor, the Sea Art Festival has become the unique marine art brand of Busan that is young, experimental, communicative and site-specific.