Miracles, Violence, Disorders and Spirits 5

This is a video documentation of a lecture “Grandmothers’ Words and Voices” delivered by Sang-il Choi, MBC Radio Producer. The lecture was held on 25 October, 2014, from 13:00 to 14:50 at the Seoul Museum of Art as the third symposium of Miracles, Violence, Disorders, a joint event of SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014 and the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation’s International Workshop and Academy.
Miracles, Violence, Disorders was a multifaceted conference comprising lectures, workshops, and performances. It explored shared concerns of that year’s biennale and the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation—namely, Asian history and culture—through the keywords ghosts, spies, and grandmothers. Rather than seeking academic proof of the overarching theme, the conference encouraged open discussions on concrete subjects and works related to the uncanny, violence, chaos, and spirits.