A Map, to be published in September 2023, serves as a navigation tool and also a conceptual device that outlines the ideas about non-territorial mapping proposed by the Biennale. While relying on cartographic standards, it chooses to feature certain boundaries and landmarks and not others, blurring the limits of the city and the legibility of the map. It compiles multiple layers of information about the biennale, its venues and collaborators, the city of Seoul, and additional historical and natural landmarks.

A Guidebook facilitates multiple approaches to navigating the Biennale’s exhibitions and public programs. It aggregates information about exhibition venues, artists, artworks, and events, as well as mapping out the ideas and aesthetics that encompass THIS TOO, IS A MAP.

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.

Co-Publishers
Eunju Choi, General Director of Seoul Museum of Art,
Natalia Zuluaga & Gean Moreno, [NAME] Publications

Editors
Rachael Rakes with Sofía Dourron,
Natalia Zuluaga, Gean Moreno

The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale publishes a monthly print newsletter, which runs from June 2022 to November 2023, to elaborate on the ideas and aesthetics surrounding THIS TOO, IS A MAP. Using keywords such as arrival, reading, scenery, and observation, the newsletter becomes an access point and bridge to the maps of individuals to be explored in this biennale.