The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit

2025.08.26 – 2025.11.23

Design: nonplace studio

Open to the public from August 26 to November 23, 2025 at Seoul Museum of Art and other venues in Seoul, Séance: Technology of the Spirit will present new and existing work from artists around the world, past and present, who have drawn on occult, mystical, and spiritual traditions. Key to the 13th edition is that these alternative “technologies” contest the accelerationist and rationalistic logics of capitalist modernity, and might therefore resist—and reconfigure—the political and intellectual structures that shape our experience. This “exhibition-as-séance” draws on the long history of attempts to contact worlds beyond waking life and seeks to outline how this engagement transformed the languages and methods of artistic production.

Project title

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit
Venues

Seoul Museum of Art NAKWON SANGGA Seoul Art Cinema
Period

2025.08.26 – 2025.11.23

The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Séance: Technology of the Spirit exhibition opens at Seoul Museum of Art and Nakwon Arcade, and a screening program takes its place at Seoul Art Cinema every Saturday.

Seoul Museum of Art

61, Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
Location
Subway Lines 1 & 2. City Hall Station. Exits 10, 11, 12
Buses 172, 472, 600, 602, 7019. City Hall & Seosomun Government Complex Stop
Due to limited parking we recommend public transportation.

Tue-Thur 10.00-20.00
Fri 10.00-21.00
Weekends & Holidays 10.00–19.00
Closed on Mondays
Free Admission

NAKWON SANGGA No. 325, 339, 412

428 Samil-daero, Jongro-gu, Seoul
Location
Subway Lines 1, 3 & 5. Jongno 3-ga Station. Exit 5

Tue-Thur 10.00-20.00
Fri 10.00-21.00
Weekends & Holidays 10.00–19.00
Closed on Mondays
Free Admission

Seoul Art Cinema

22-7 Jeong-dong, Jung District, Seoul
Location
Subway Line 5. Seodaemun Station. Exit 5

Every Saturday 14.00-16.00
Ticket 9,000 KRW (adults), 6,000 KRW (under 18 and seniors), 5,000 KRW (members)

Artistic Directors

Anton Vidokle is an artist, filmmaker, and the founder of e-flux. He has worked and exhibited in South Korea numerous times, including two editions of Gwangju Biennale, where he won the Noon Award in 2016, as well as a solo show at MMCA in 2019 and other exhibitions, lectures, and projects.

Hallie Ayres is a curator, researcher, and art historian who has published texts and delivered lectures on the reconciliation of indigenous and Western knowledge production through spiritual belief systems, among many other topics.

Lukas Brasiskis, a PhD scholar and film curator, is devoted to artists’ and experimental film. In his curatorial and academic work, he often explores the limits and potentials of moving image media to present more-than-human perspectives, a topic he discussed in his essay for Art Contemplating Crisis, MMCA Studies’ special edition in 2020, among other writings.