This is the video documentation of the lecture “The Spirit of the Age Needed in the 2000s: Awakening from the Fantasy of ‘Great Art’” delivered by Shim Sangyong as the second speaker at the pre-Biennale Open Lecture Series for the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale. The event was held on 7 December, 2017, at SeMA Hall of the Seoul Museum of Art.