Technology of the Spirit

In this upcoming event in Tokyo, SMB13 Artistic directors Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis will present their developing thinking towards Séance: Technology of the Spirit on the opening day of YANARI (Rattling a House), a curatorial symposium “exploring the entanglements of media, exhibition-making, and geopolitics through the lens of spectral reverberation” at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. Screenings of Jane Jin Kaisen’s Wreckage (2024, 12 min); Anton Vidokle’s Citizens of the Cosmos (2019, 30 min); Maya Deren’s Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946, 15 min); and Shana Moulton’s Whispering Pines 9 (2009, 10 min) and MindPlace ThoughtStream (2014, 12 min) will be followed by talks by the artistic directors, a “local response” to the exhibition’s proposals, and a dialogue between the organizers of the Yebisu International Festival and Seoul Mediacity Biennale will be held. Hosted by the 0-eA Society for the Curatorial in partnership with Seoul Museum of Art, this all-day event begins at 1:00 pm local time on May 31.