SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA

2016.09.01 – 2016.11.20

SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA Poster, 2016. Design: Math Practice (Kang E Roon, Eo Minsun)

Ugo Rondinone, Dog Days Are Over, 1998. neon, acrylic glass, translucent foil, aluminum. 330 × 770 × 10 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery, Seoul. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Seoul Museum of Art Courtyard. 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki

SeMA 비엔날레 미디어시티서울 2016 《네리리 키르르 하라라 》 개막식. 서울시립미술관. 2016. 08. 31. 사진: 김익현, 홍철기

Kemang Wa Lehulere, Another Cosmic Interluded Orbit, 2016. chalk on black board. 590 × 1070 cm. Commissioned by SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul Museum of Art, 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki

(clockwise from the front) Ivan Navarro, Untitled (Twin Towers), 2011. neon lights, wood, mirror, oneway mirror and mixed media. 147 × 147 × 19.5 cm each. Courtesy of the artist and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. Collection of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Natacha Nisic, W SONG, 2016. single-channel video (HD, sound).13 min 45 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul Museum of Art, 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki

(clockwise from the left) Korakrit Arunanondchai, Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3, 2015. single-channel video. 25 min 55 sec; Untitled (Pillow), 2016. denim, foam. 162.6 × 162.6 × 45.7 cm each; Untitled (Platform), 2016. denim, wood. 35.6 × 27.9 × 8.9 cm. Courtesy of the artist and C L E A R I N G, New York, Brussels. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul Museum of Art, 2016. Photo: Gim Ikhyun, Hong Cheolki

SeMA pre-Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 Open Editorial Meeting. Participants: Beck Jee-sook, Chimurenga, Jiwon Lee, Miguel A. López and Keiko Sei, Moon Jung Jang. Moderator: Yekyung Kil. Seoul Museum of Art. 2015. 11. 27

eMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA Open meeting Open Editorial Meeting 3. Participants: Miguel A. López, Liz Park. Moderator: Yekyung Kil. Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. 09. 10. Photo: Gim Ikhyun, Hong Cheolki

Yang Ah Ham, The Village, 2016. 14 programs for 3 weeks and exhibition for 12 weeks. “Dining Table for All” workshop. Instructors: blblbg × collective kitchen for all. Sponsor: AUD SOCIAL COOPERATIVE. Supported by Mondiraan Fund‚ Netherlands. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Nam-Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki

Yang Ah Ham, The Village, 2016. 14 programs for 3 weeks and exhibition for 12 weeks. “Video Documentation: Cho Yungchun, Wang Minchul. Photo Documentation: Ham Jaewon. Film editors: Ham Hyekyung, Park Jinwoo. Coordinators: Kim Yuran, Kim Suyeon, Kim Sohee, Ha Minchul. Space Design: COM. Sponsor: AUD SOCIAL COOPERATIVE. Supported by Mondiraan Fund‚ Netherlands. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Nam-Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki

SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA Workshop Connected Future. Artist: Mire Lee. “Instructors: Seulah Cha, Haneyl Choi. Target Participants: from fifth grade in elementary school to third grade in middle school in Seoul (Both visually challenged and non-challenged students will work together). Buk-Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. 10. 22

Taeyoon Choi, Uncertainty School, 2016. 14 programs for 3 weeks and an exhibition for 12 weeks. “Ramp and Accessibility Mapping” seminar. “Participating artists: Sara Hendren, Alice Sheppard. Coordinator: Suh Saerom. English interpreters: Woo Hyungmin, Taeyoon Choi. Sign language interpreters: Kim Hyunchul, Moon Eunjung. Text interpreter: Lee Sieun (AUD member). Sponsor: AUD SOCIAL COOPERATIVE. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Buk Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. Photo courtesy of the artist

SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 *NERIRI KIRURU HARARA *Poster, 2016. Design: Math Practice (Kang E Roon, Eo Minsun)

SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, was held from September 1 to November 20, 2016, at the Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun, Nam-SeMA and Buk-SeMA. NERIRI KIRURU HARARA suggestions to the following questions: how to formulate individual and common expectations out of unsought-for inheritances, be it war, disaster, poverty or displacement; how to generate as many versions of futures as possible and imagine plots of radical discontinuity, within the context of South Korea that is marooned in a peninsula-cum-island; and finally, how to enable time-slip into these futures through the language of art and the capabilities of media. The title is derived from a line of the poem Two Billion Light Years of Solitude by Tanikawa Shuntarõ, which verbalizes the imaginary language of Martians.