Local Recycling and Cultural Events: Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2011

Abstract

Introduction          The Cheongju International Craft Biennale, established in 1999, has provided chance to consider of the worth of Craft that has been vanished and to recover its value. Especially, we not only have suggested the future and vision of craft through international craft trends, but also have contributed to provide craft artists with a field to share current craft trends and to interact with themselves. By holding the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, craft artists around the world, artists, craft’fans paid attention to Cheogju and thus, now, Cheongju is positioned as a representative city of crafts. The Cheongju International Craft Biennale has actually brought many craft artists into Cheongju about 1,500 applicants took a big interest in Chrongju International Craft Competition in 2011.          The Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2011, started its 7th project, enhanced international status by strengthening its position as a mecca of craft and design. It was a biennale, in an attempt to keep pace with the times of craft, to represent specific craft needed for the daily lives and combined with lives. Moreover it showed the substance of craft that unites with individuals as well as balances between quality and formality of lives. In this biennale, facing useless things to another good for nothing with no relation of was able to create new and useful crafts and arts. With crafts, the Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2011 hoped to make enjoy able lives though discussion on the crafts, consideration and reinforcement of the value of the Biennale’s formality