THIS TOO, IS A MAP, AN ANTHOLOGY

Seoul Museum of Art and [NAME] Publication

The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale THIS TOO, IS A MAP, AN ANTHOLOGY cover, Seoul Museum of Art and Miami: [NAME] Publication, 2023. Design: Laura Richard, So-Hyun Bae

The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale *THIS TOO, IS A MAP*, AN ANTHOLOGY cover, Seoul Museum of Art and Miami: [NAME] Publication, 2023. Design: Laura Richard, So-Hyun Bae

An Anthology accompanies the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale’s exhibition and events as a stand-alone, research-focused volume. Engaging with issues at the core of the Biennale’s mission, this publication brings together text-based and visual contributions by artists, researchers, and writers from around the world. In so doing, an Anthology contends with such topics as migrant and diasporic narratives and their entanglements with global industrial networks; poetic, philosophical, and feminist readings of inhabitation in the context of territorial borders and fluid identities; decolonial implications of translation and colonial languages of geology and geography; revisionary mappings of infrastructures and cybernetics; and the circularity of extractivism and e-waste disposal. It proposes narratives and images that serve as navigational tools for a future world beyond nation-state borders.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Eunju Choi

Introduction to SMB12 and this Book. Rachael Rakes

Section 1 Language Forms Are Landforms

Our bodies are filled with stones. We call them bones.. Steffani Jemison

There was a word inside a stone. Sofía Dourron

Translation Is a Mode = Translation Is an Anti-Neocolonial Mode. Don Mee Choi, English Translation by e.yaewon

Being at Ease in a “World”. María Lugones

Section 2 Heres as Elsewheres

Diaspora’s Disorientation: Representing Korean Migrations. Min Kyung Lee

Thoughts on the Ending. Jieun Cho (ikkibawiKrrr)

The Journey of Becoming “Human”: Beyond the Map of Civilization and the Boundaries of Imperialism. Sohyun Park

Doing-Woman-Animal-Asia. Hyesoon Kim, English Translation by Anton Hur