This video documents the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (SMB13) pre-Biennale II Notes for a Séance, held at Seoul Museum of Art on November 30, 2024. As a means of introducing ideas that inform the curatorial imagination for SMB13, Part 2 of pre-Biennale II is titled “Mediating the Invisible: Spiritual, Cinematic, and Psychoanalytical Séances” by Lukas Brasiskis. In this presentation, Brasiskis explores three different meanings of the concept of the séance–spiritual séance, cinematic séance, and psychoanalytical séance–that were widely practiced in the West in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Presenters: SMB13 Artistic Directors Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis
Screening Artists: Bruce Conner, Jordan Belson, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle, Shana Moulton, Shigeko Kubota, Yin-Ju Chen
