The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP

2023.09.21 – 2023.11.19

The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP Poster. 2023. Design: So-Hyun Bae, Laura Richard

ikkibawiKrrr, Earth Monument, 2023. soil. dimensions variable. “Ground” Sound: Taehyun Choi. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Torkwase Dyson, I Belong to the Distance 3, (Force Multiplier), 2023. plywood, metal, acrylic. dimensions variable. Architectural assistant: Anoushae Eirabie. On-site Production: Jo Jaehong, Jung Jinwook, Yeom Chulho. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Torkwase Dyson, Kujichagulia (Planning Freedom), 2023. wood, graphite on paper, plexi, ink on paper, acrylic. dimensions variable. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of Seoul Museum of Art. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Agustina Woodgate, The New Times Atlas of the World, 2023. Custom automatic page flipper, scanner, custom generative system. Dimensions variable. AI Research and Generative System Development: Błażej Kotowski. 3D Modelling and Robotics: Germán Pérez, Sungeun Lee. Electronic design: Gabriela Munguía. Supported by the12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Barro, Buenos Aires, and Adam Mickiewicz Institute. Courtesy of the artist and Barro, Buenos Aires. Collection of Seoul Museum of Art. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

(from the front) Nolan Oswald Dennis, Atopia Field, 2021. floor diagram. 500 × 750 cm. Carpet Production: Yann Carpet, Seoul. Commissioned by Palais De Tokyo; Hyunsun Jeon, Cross My Borderline, 2023. watercolor on canvas, wooden frame, aluminum stands. 337 × 728 cm (112 × 145.5 cm each). Stand production: WAM. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Shen Xin, ས་གཞི་སྔོན་པོ་འགྱུར། (The Earth Turned Green), 2022. three-channel video (sound). 38 min 39 sec. Tibetan Translator: སྐྱིད་དར་འཛོམས། (Skyi Trazomsa). Voices: སྐྱིད་དར་འཛོམས། (Skyi Trazomsa), Shen Xin. Theatre Light Technician: Kyle Gavell. Colorist: Jason R. Moffat. Sound Mix: Jochen Jezussek. Supported by Swiss Institute, New York; Next Step Fund by McKnight Foundation; Sister Dennis Frandrup Artists in Residence Program, Minnesota; Times Museum, Guangdong; MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

(from the left) Elena Damiani, Brighter than the Moon, 2016. single-channel video projection (sound). 8 min 16 sec. Courtesy of the artist; Channa Horwitz, Orange Grid, 2013-2023. wall and floor installation, printed grid and black wooden polygons. 373.3 × 1831 × 549.3 cm. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London, New York, LA, Shanghai, and Beijing. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Exhibition view of The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP, Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. 09. 21 - 11. 19. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Bo Wang, Fountain of Interiors, 2022-2023. rebars, LED lights, plastic plants, mirror, wall paper, sound. 400 × 450 cm. On-site Reproduction: Design Bourne. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Francois Knoetze, Core Dump, 2018-2019. four-channel video, e-waste installation. dimensions variable (installation). 46 min (video, loop). Camera: Anton Scholtz, Cléophée Moses. Featuring: Bamba Diagne, Darly Mbudi, Chen Qiheng, and Amita Ye Feng. Sound Design: Caydon van Eck. A video series supported by the Digital Earth Fellowship; Hivos; SIDA; The British Council; the TURN fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Produced in cooperation with Kër Thiossane, Dakar; Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg; ZKM. Installation supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Chan Sook Choi, THE TUMBLE, 2023. two-channel video installation (4K, color, sound), single-channel video installation (HD, color, sound), archives. 12 min (two-channel video, loop), 9 min (single-channel video), dimensions variable (archives). Commissioned by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale and pre-production supported by Arts Council Korea. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Kent Chan, Warm Fronts, 2021. four-channel video, mirrored plexiglass with silkscreen print, mirrored plexiglass. 59.4 × 84.1 cm each (4 plexiglass). Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; National Arts Council, Singapore. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of Art. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Jesse Chun, 시: sea, 2022. single-channel projection on a free standing white painted MDF structure, 2 mirrors, rocks. dimensions variable(installation). 2 min 10 sec. On-site Production: Jo Jaehong, Yeom Chulho, Jung Jinwook. Supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoul Museum of History Exhibition Hall B. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Lo-Def Film Factory (Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson), The Subterranean Imprint Archive, 2021-2023. VR video Installation, wall painting. dimensions variable (wall painting). 15 min (VR video). Wall painting collaboration: Joe-Yves Salankang Sa-Ngol, Kaelo Molefe. Commissioned by Oulimata Gueye for Le Lieu Unique and supported by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. SeMA Bunker. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Hyunsun Jeon, Into the Unnamed Mountain, 2023. mural. 267 × 1130 cm (wall), 267 × 670 cm (glass wall). Commissioned by the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. space mm. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

Raya Martin, Ars Colonia, 2021. single-channel video (analog video & hand-painted 35mm). 1 min 12 sec. Commissioned by the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Courtesy of the artist. The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Seoullo Media Canvas. 2023. Photo: GLIMWORKERS

The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale *THIS TOO, IS A MAP* Poster. 2023. Design: So-Hyun Bae, Laura Richard

Entitled THIS TOO, IS A MAP, the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (SMB12) opened to the public at Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of History, SeMA Bunker, space mm, Sogon Space, and Seoullo Media Canvas from 21 September to 19 November 2023. Developed to imagine the global aesthetics of the non-territorial, THIS TOO, IS A MAP focuses on alternative concepts of mediating and relating that live outside of borders and looks to the necessity of abstractions and hidden and deliberately obscured languages to communicate shared existence. The project refers to the global relations that take place within Seoul and its industrial surroundings, and the positions and references of those willingly and unwillingly displaced, often multiple times over, whether within or outside of the city and state. The Biennale looks at systems imposed or created outside of national borders, including transnational solidarities, “underground” commitments, the coded mapping of data and infrastructure, as well as those of artistic and political communication.