This richly illustrated publication documents, contextualizes and expands upon the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Séance: Technology of the Spirit. Curated by Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis, explores the entanglement of art and spiritual practice from the dawn of modernity to the present, connecting the mystics and mediums who prefigured the emergence of modern and abstract art to contemporary artists from around the world. Across 650 pages, this bilingual English-Korean publication presents a map of that complex historical relationship. Eleven newly commissioned texts reflect on the influence of marginalized belief systems on the development of modern and contemporary art, collectively proposing an alternative to the prevailing formalist, social, or materialist accounts.

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