Ziad Antar
Tarek Atoui
Lucas Bambozzi
Cao Guimarae
Beto Magahaes
Yael Bartana
Blast Theory
Manon De Boe
Mark Bradford
Antonio Caballero
Cho Duck Hyu
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Jimmie Durham
Rainer Ganahal
Douglas Gordon
Shilpa Gupta
Izumi Taro
Annette Kelm
Kim Beom
Kim Soun Gui
Sung Hwan Kim
Koizumi Meiro
Miki Kratsmen
Erik Van Lieshout
Minouk Lim
Sarah Morris
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Noh Suntag
Catherine Opie
Christodoulos Panayiotou
Park Chan-Kyong
Walid Raad
Judy Radul
Jewyo RHII
Willem De Rooij
Julika Rudelius
Tino Sehgal
Allan Sekula
Duncan Speakman
Do Ho Suh
Nasrin Tabatabai
Fabak Afrassiabi
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Xijing Men
Chen Shaoxiong
Gimhongsok
Tsuyoshi Ozawa
Yangachi
Tobias Zielony
Sunjung Kim
Clara Kim
Nicolaus Schafhausen
Sumitomo Fumihiko
Trust - 6th edition of the biennial exhibition. The exhibition works against the rhetoric of technology as progress and promise, offering instead a recalibration of its definition. Many of the artists in the exhibition are not known as media artists, but use various forms of media (printed material, urban detritus, photographic and video technology, documentary and fictional forms) to counter the generalizing of experience by dominant narratives.
curated by Sunjung KIM, Clara KIM, Nicolaus SCHAFHAUSEN and SUMITOMO Fumihiko
Media City Seoul presents the 6th edition of the biennial exhibition
under the title ‘Trust’, comprising work of more than 50
international artists.
To connect with the rest of the world, we invest a certain amount of
trust in various relations. Trust is by default an ambiguous notion,
it is one grounded in good faith as much as in doubt. As individuals
we not only have these relations to our fellow citizens, but also
increasingly with modes of connection. With proliferating forms of
media, information comes to us in many guises, and the message is more
and more opaque; marketing poses as friendship, solitude as community,
populism as democracy.
Instead of simply stepping up to the speed of technology, the
curatorial team of Media City Seoul 2010 proceeds from a desire to
pause, reflect, and critique the transitions and transformations of
our social contexts. The exhibition is propositional by nature. Trust
interprets media broadly—as a tool for engagement within a shifting
terrain where political, national or religious identities are being
re-charted; where means of distribution creates real and imagined
communities; and where private interpersonal space share the same
platform as global political issues of the day. As forms of media
become more accessible and varied, we enter an era that seemingly
allows more room for self-expression and individuality. Yet, what is
at stake when media channels are more concentrated and powerful? How
do these networks create new spaces of alienation and control? How do
we reconcile the desire for changing social models, with a desire for
new communities?
The exhibition works against the rhetoric of technology as progress
and promise, offering instead a recalibration of its definition. Many
of the artists in the exhibition are not known as media artists, but
use various forms of media (printed material, urban detritus,
photographic and video technology, documentary and fictional forms) to
counter the generalizing of experience by dominant narratives. Trust
investigates notions of community, representation and perception in a
world that is continuously being retold and reconfigured. In this
light, how are stories, histories and myths construed? How is
collective experience represented through multiplicity and difference?
The exhibition emphasizes artistic practices that play with
documentary conventions, fictional forms, espousing for imagination,
subjectivity and localities as underpinnings of contemporary
experience. Sometimes revealing the underlying constructs of mediated
stories, and at other times obscuring them. Trust does not aim to
meticulously dissect the matters at hand, or present a scientific or
intellectual study of our current mediascape. Instead, Trust offers a
broad interpretation of media and invests in a humanistic and
individual response to contemporary experience.
Artists Ziad ANTAR, Tarek ATOUI,Lucas BAMBOZZI/Cao GUIMARÃES/Beto
MAGALHÃES, Yael BARTANA, Blast Theory, Manon DE BOER, Mark BRADFORD,
Antonio CABALLERO, CHO Duck Hyun, Abraham CRUZVILLEGAS, Jimmie DURHAM,
Rainer GANAHL, Douglas GORDON, Shilpa GUPTA, IZUMI Taro, Adrià
JULIÀ, Annette KELM, KIM Beom, KIM Soun Gui, Sung Hwan KIM, KOIZUMI
Meiro, Miki KRATSMAN, Erik VAN LIESHOUT, Minouk LIM, Sarah MORRIS,
Deimantas NARKEVIČIUS, Tuấn Andrew NGUYỄN, NOH Suntag, Catherine
OPIE, Christodoulos PANAYIOTOU, PARK Chan-Kyong, Walid RAAD, Judy
RADUL, Jewyo RHII, Willem DE ROOIJ, Julika RUDELIUS, Tino SEHGAL,
Allan SEKULA, Duncan SPEAKMAN, Do Ho SUH, Nasrin TABATABAI & Babak
AFRASSIABI, Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, Xijing Men (CHEN Shaoxiong,
Gimhongsok, Tsuyoshi OZAWA), Yangachi, Tobias ZIELONY.
Curatorial team Sunjung KIM (Artistic director, Media City Seoul
2010) and co-curators Clara KIM (Director/Curator of Gallery at
REDCAT, Los Angeles), Nicolaus SCHAFHAUSEN (Director of Witte de With,
Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam), and SUMITOMO Fumihiko
(Curator, Arts Initiative Tokyo, Tokyo).
Inaugurated in 2000 with a specific aim to enforce the image of the
city of Seoul as a capital of technological development, the
exhibition has been one of few international biennials with a focus on
‘media art’. As the possibilities of media continue to redefine
and alter everyday life, it is an opportune moment to re-examine our
basic notion of media, in order to intelligently and thoughtfully head
forth into a new era. The curatorial team has modified the title from
media_city seoul to Media City Seoul, a modest but important gesture
that emphasizes individualness of these entities and attempts to move
beyond catch words and compound terms to the co-existence of separate
but equal parts. In doing so, Media City Seoul 2010 is proud to take
the biennial one step further and think about media beyond its formal
definitions.
Media City Seoul 2010 acknowledges the following partners:
Media City Seoul 2010, the 6th Seoul International Media Art Biennale
is hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government and organized by Seoul
Museum of Art. With support from: Seoul Metropolitan Office of
Education, Korea Tourism Organization, Mondriaan Foundation, The Japan
Foundation. Sponsored by: Epson Korea, Kyungbang Times Square, Samsung
Electronics, SK Telecom. The British Council generously supports the
outdoor projects by Blast Theory and Duncan Speakman.
Contact
General Information: info@mediacityseoul.org
International Press: Nathalie Hartjes nh.mediacity@gmail.com
Korean Press: press_kr@mediacityseoul.org
Opening reception: 6 September, 5 p.m.
Press preview: 4 - 5 September, 12 a.m. – 6 p.m
Different venues
Seoul Museum of Art
Gyenghuigung Annex of Seoul Museum of Art,ì
Seoul Museum of History
Simpson Memorial Hall (EWHA Girsl High School)
Seoul