Seoul Mediacity Biennale Names Artistic Directors

Spotlight / Photolog Séance in Seoul: Photos of the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Ada Leung

Following an open call, Seoul Mediacity Biennale has announced the artistic directors for its next exhibition.

From 66 candidates, they accepted a proposal from Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis to use ‘the aesthetics of spiritualism and animism to critically intervene with the dominant discourses of capitalism, materialism, post-colonialisation, and contemporary technology.’

The three curators proposed a show that employs the mechanics of a séance to construct ‘a heightened experience in which waking life is entangled with the more-than-human world.’

‘These ideas are connected to important contemporary discourses ranging from feminism to indigenous struggle, anti-capitalism to post-colonialism,’ they said.

Anton Vidokle is the founder of e-flux. He was the chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale and the curator of the 2016 Gwangju Biennale, among many other roles.

Both Hallie Ayres and Lukas Brasiskis also work at e-Flux, Ayres as Associate Director and Brasiskis as Associate Curator of Film and Video.

Each edition of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale gathers around 50 artists for a presentation centred around Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)‘s Seosomun Main Branch in Seoul, South Korea. —[O]

Main image: The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Artistic Directors Hallie Ayres, Anton Vidokle and Lukas Brasiskis (from left to right). Courtesy the Seoul Museum of Art. Photo: Hong Cheolki.