July 16–28, 2024
The 13th Seoul Mediacity pre-Biennale STATION—IMAGE COMMUNITY is organized to examine the conceptual dimensions of media art within the continuum of its history and to activate the cultural position of the Biennale as a generative art institution via meta-study on its accumulated resources as well as creating new production and distribution.
For the last 27 years, the Biennale has explored the complexities of changing contemporary media and technology landscapes and shared thoughts on political, reflective and prospective aspects of artistic experience. The 33 videos and films comprising artworks exhibited in previous editions of Seoul Mediacity Biennale as well as new invitations and commissionsㅡcollectively explore nature as a means of experiencing the contemporary living environment, the ways in which narrates history and notions of interrelationship through media.
These artworks recollect and weave together various objects among records, contacts and networks to decode the complex ecology of our present-day reality, which is enormously impacted by the contemporary media environment. The aggregate movements of images, texts and sounds also pose questions about the complexities of our lives today by building up various time scales, narrating methods of remembering and overturning calibrations of center and periphery.
SeMA Bunker, the main venue of this program, was originally built as a secret shelter during Korea’s military regime in the 1970s and now operates as an annex of SeMA that convenes diverse programs organized by the museum. Within this historical site, artworks unfold empirical sequences in the context of Korea’s modern history and geopolitical conditions. The artistic narratives recounted here vis-à-vis time-based media inquire into the fundamental value of art creation in daily life, thereby including a retrospective view of the Seoul Mediacity Biennale’s role as an “image community” fostering participation and harboring common sensibilities.
Duration: July 16–28, 2024. Open everyday 11am–8pm
Venue: SeMA Bunker (B 76, Yeoui-daero, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul)
Host: Seoul Museum of Art
Artists: Adrià Julià, Che Onejoon, Donghee Koo, Francois Knoetze, GLIMWORKERS, HongLee Hyunsook, Hong Jinhwon, Hong Soon-chyul, Imai Norio, Jinjoo Kim, Joo Hwang, Jumana Emil Abboud, Kearn-Hyung Ahn, Leeje, Lee Kyuchul, Mackerel Safranski, Mark Ramos, Park Hyunki, Part-Time Suite, Rim Dong Sik, Sylbee Kim, Thao Nguyen Phan, Yangachi, Yang Ah Ham, Yo Daham, Yuichiro Tamura, Zheng Mahler, Ziyang Wu
Collaboration: ARE YOU FOR REAL, a project by ifa—Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Support: Japan Foundation Seoul, Embassy of Spain in Republic of Korea
Screening
The Sleep (Narrative of Art), 11am–1:07pm
HongLee, Hyunsook, Underground Tunnel, Mago Halmi’s Pan Pipe, 2015
Che Onejoon, Mansudae Master Class, 2013–2018
Joo Hwang, Minyo, There and Here, 2018
Kearn-Hyung Ahn, How to stop being Korean, 2018/2024
Yang Ah Ham, The Sleep, 2015
Ballroom (Hyperobjects), 1:12–3:04pm
Donghee Koo, Under the vein; I spell on you, 2012
Sylbee Kim, Vagrant Genes: Itinerary, 2021
Imai Norio, Sobyo/Eizo (Sketches/Images), 1973/2021
Jumana Emil Abboud, The Water Keepers, 2021
Jumana Emil Abboud, I feel everything, 2020–2022
Rim Dong Sik, GLIMWORKERS, The Buddhist Boy, 1964/2024
Yo Daham, Ballroom (0&1), 2024
Yangachi, Bright Dove Hyunsook, Gyeongseong, 2010–2024
Communal Confessions (Media as Memory), 3:09–4:32pm
Joo Hwang, Altered Landscape—Revisit, 2006/2024
Joo Hwang, Departure—Addition, 2015/2024
HongLee, Hyunsook, A Small Memorial, 2016
Mackerel Safranski, Communal Confession, 2021
Thao Nguyen Phan, Mute Grain, 2019
Part-Time Suite, People, the Next People, 2017
Leeje, Exit 3 of Hyehwa Station, 3 pm, 2004/2024
City Waterfall (City and Media), 4:37–5:45pm
Hong Soon-chyul, City Waterfall, 1996/2024
Park Hyunki, Passing Through the City, 1981
Francois Knoetze, Core Dump: Shenzhen, 2018–2019
Francois Knoetze, Core Dump: New York, 2018–2019
Ziyang Wu, Mark Ramos, Event Modeling, 2023
Hong Jinhwon, Good afternoon, Good evening and Good night—bug report, 2024
What You Are Touching (Corporeal Media), 5:50–8:02pm
Yuichiro Tamura, Suzuki Knife, Social Cooking, 2014
HongLee, Hyunsook, What You Are Touching Now—Wolchul mountain Sirubong, 2023
HongLee, Hyunsook, What You Are Touching Now, 2019
Lee Kyuchul, Documentation on Space and Perception workshop, 1993-1994
Jinjoo Kim, hearing, 2024
Adrià Julià, Behind the Missing Oh, 2024
Installation
Zheng Mahler, What is it like to be a (virtual) bat? Phase 3, 2023
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