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Ximena Garrido-Lecca at the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: THIS TOO, IS A MAP.
21.09.2023
THIS TOO, IS A MAP presents works, projects, and programs by artists from around the world, several showing in Seoul for the first time, and many with new commissions. The initial list of participants includes Agustina Woodgate, Animali Domestici, Anna Maria Maiolino, Bo Wang, Chan Sook Choi, Femke Herregraven, Francois Knoetze, Fyerool Darma, Guido Yannitto, ikkibawiKrrr, Jaye Rhee, Jesse Chun, Kent Chan, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Sanou Oumar, Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner, Shen Xin, Torkwase Dyson, and Ximena Garrido-Lecca.
Developed to imagine the global aesthetics of the non-territorial–from physical and cultural displacements and replacements, to “unseen” infrastructures and media, to co-situated solidarities–the project focuses on alternative concepts of mediating and relating through diasporas and social ecologies that live outside of borders. This refers to the global relations that take place within Seoul and its industrial surroundings, and the positions and references of those willingly and unwillingly displaced, often multiple times over, whether within or outside of the city and state. The Biennale aims to think about how networks operate today when there’s often no going “back,” and in a dynamic in which so much of what controls daily life happens outside of territorialization. To this end, it looks at systems imposed or created outside of national borders, including transnational solidarities, “underground” commitments, the coded mapping of data and infrastructure, as well as those of artistic and political communication. The project opposes the sense of rational clarity ostensibly offered by the cartographic map and looks to the necessity of abstractions and hidden and deliberately obscured language.
Source: 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: THIS TOO, IS A MAP.
From September 21st to November 19th at Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)
61 Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu
Seoul, South Korea.
Developed to imagine the global aesthetics of the non-territorial–from physical and cultural displacements and replacements, to “unseen” infrastructures and media, to co-situated solidarities–the project focuses on alternative concepts of mediating and relating through diasporas and social ecologies that live outside of borders. This refers to the global relations that take place within Seoul and its industrial surroundings, and the positions and references of those willingly and unwillingly displaced, often multiple times over, whether within or outside of the city and state. The Biennale aims to think about how networks operate today when there’s often no going “back,” and in a dynamic in which so much of what controls daily life happens outside of territorialization. To this end, it looks at systems imposed or created outside of national borders, including transnational solidarities, “underground” commitments, the coded mapping of data and infrastructure, as well as those of artistic and political communication. The project opposes the sense of rational clarity ostensibly offered by the cartographic map and looks to the necessity of abstractions and hidden and deliberately obscured language.
Source: 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale: THIS TOO, IS A MAP.
From September 21st to November 19th at Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA)
61 Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu
Seoul, South Korea.