About Monoskop & Exhibition Library
This program was a public event organized in conjunction with the artwork Exhibition Library by Dušan Barok (Monoskop), presented in the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên. Dušan Barok is the founding editor of Monoskop (https://monoskop.org), a platform for art, avant-garde media, and humanities research.
Exhibition Library reimagines the medium of art catalogue. Catalogues carry exhibitions through time and space, figuring as tropes for imagining arrangements and the course of works and settings they describe. For this work, artists, designers, curators, poets and researchers created catalogues of imaginary exhibitions. Exploring both the potential and impossibility in art, the resulting exhibition library also serves as a “library of exhibitions.” The installation is available to visitors, designed as a platform for gatherings and discussions.
On September 8, 2018, Dušan Barok introduced Exhibition Library to audiences at the installation site. In the following session, “Catalogue it!” on September 11, Lim Kyung yong of SMB10 Directorial Collective joined as a moderator to lead an in-depth discussion on the overall scope of the work.
