PORT JOURNEYS
クリエイティブな街づくりを推進する、世界の港町による文化交流プロジェクト BUILDING AND SUSTAINING INTER-CITY RELATIONS THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE AMONG PORT CITIES OF THE WORLD
クリエイティブな街づくりを推進する、世界の港町による文化交流プロジェクト BUILDING AND SUSTAINING INTER-CITY RELATIONS THROUGH CULTURAL EXCHANGE AMONG PORT CITIES OF THE WORLD
The term ‘Totatoga’ is composed of ‘TO’ from ‘Tolerance’ in French. It bears the meaning of toleration, consideration of cultural diversity. The meaning of ‘TATO’ is that artists and citizens are living and sharing both respectively and together. (It is called “따로또같이 [Taro Togattchi]” in Korean) And ‘GA(街)’ is a Chinese character. The meaning is that we share the culture of daily life centering around an open space, e.g. the street. That is how we composed the name of our project, brought into Korean letters
The Historical Downtown Culture Cluster Totatoga has been supporting ateliers in former vacant houses and buildings full of modern and contemporary history since 2010. It made the Renaissance of this Historic Downtown Culture possible by utilizing unused spaces as culture creation space.
A cooperative subcultural project for artists and residents of Busan’s city wards Jungang-Dong and Donggwang-Dong. It was initiated to reactivate the discussion about the idealistic value of this historic neighborhood, fueled by public exhibitions, readings, (international) workshops and panels, street festivals, and performances.
The project covers all genres: literature, theater, dance, and music as well as movie making and fine art, so that the exchange between residents and artists led to the reanimation of an almost bled dry quarter by establishing a sense for local identity.
Contents of Activities
Main Activities
Status of project
Duration of Project: 1st project phase: 2010-2012, 2nd phase: 2013-2015, 3rd and current phase: 2016-2018, 4thphase: 2019-2021
Project Scale: 26 places and 80 rooms
Members: 43 individual artists, 24 collectives (all in all 223 people)
Main Agent: Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Cultural Foundation
Supervision: The Artist Cooperative Chang