Sector: Arts and Culture
Country location: Republic of Korea
Grantee: SeMA Seoul Museum of Art

Project Description

Founded in 2000 to promote Seoul as a centre of media art and technology, and to reinforce the identity of Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul has served as a catalyst for creating new momentums and perspectives for art, media and technology. This 15-year trajectory of exploration has promoted local artists, encouraged international conversations, and incubated a wider audience for art and culture. Sharing the "post-museum" vision of Seoul Museum of Art, the 9th edition of Mediacity Seoul will take place from September 1 to November 20, 2016, under the curation of Beck Jee-sook.

The works and projects participating in Mediacity Seoul 2016 allude, or relay suggestions to the following questions: how to formulate individual and common expectations out of unsought-for inheritances, be it war, disaster, poverty or displacement; how to generate as many versions of futures as possible and imagine plots of radical discontinuity, within the context of South Korea that is marooned in a peninsula-cum-island; and finally, how to enable time-slip into these futures through the language of art and the capabilities of media.

Key dates:

Preview, Seosomun Main Building of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), 30 August 2016

Opening Event, Seosomun Main Building of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), 31 August 2016

Exhibition, All three branches of Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), 01 September 2016

Social media: website (http://mediacityseoul.kr/2016/en/) Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mediacityseoul/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mediacityseoul/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/mediacityseoul)

Australia-Korea Foundation grant offer: $16,000.00

Total project value: $2,032,769.76