15 Oct Seoul Mediacity Biennale Names Artistic Directors
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Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis have proposed the séance as a model for the Biennale’s 13th edition, which opens in Autumn 2025.
The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Artistic Directors, from left: Hallie Ayres, Anton Vidokle, and Lukas Brasiskis. Courtesy Seoul Museum of Art.
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]
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